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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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