“In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.”
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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
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Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.
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Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
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This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
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