The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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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.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
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