Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Civilization, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1967). “Love and justice: selections from the shorter writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”

• Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Democracy, Venture

• Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Average, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Order, Risk

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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