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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inher

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Faith
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Truth
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Ive been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldnt pay for the dental work he needed. – Matthew Lesko

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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. – Chief Joseph

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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry Kissinger

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As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. – Morihei Ueshiba

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