Change What Cannot Be Accepted

Aim For The Stars And Maybe You'll Reach The Sky.

We Take, And Must Continue To Take, Morally Hazardous Actions To Preserve Our Civilization. We Must Exercise Our Power. But We Ought Neither To Believe That A Nation Is Capable Of Perfect Disinterestedness In Its Exercise, Nor Become Complacent About A Particular Degree Of Interest And Passion Which Corrupt The Justice By Which The Exercise Of Power Is Legitimatized.

While It Is Possible For Intelligence To Increase The Range Of Benevolent Impulse, And Thus Prompt A Human Being To Consider The Needs And Rights Of Other Than Those To Whom He Is Bound By Organic And Physical Relationship, There Are Definite Limits In The Capacity Of Ordinary Mortals Which Makes It Impossible For Them To Grant To Others What They Claim For Themselves.

The History Of Mankind Is A Perennial Tragedy; For The Highest Ideals Which The Individual May Project Are Ideals Which He Can Never Realize In Social And Collective Terms.

Now The Ordinary Protestant, Jew Or Secularist Has A Stereotype About Catholicism. It Consists Of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-american Catholicism And, Let Us Say, A Catholicism Of O'connor's "great Hurrah." Now There Are Types Of Catholicism Like That But This Doesn't - This Doesn't Do Justice To The Genuine Relation That Catholicism Has Had To Democratic Society.