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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.