The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. |
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. |
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism |
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men |
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy. |
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 |
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 |
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. |