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- Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
- President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063
- Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
- President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free nations", Address upon the American Road 1948-1950 p66
- God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
- Wife: a former sweetheart.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), on the Athenian mood during the Peloponnesian war (the eve of the decline of Athens' power)
- War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
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