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Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.