Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.
Reinhold NiebuhrReligion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
Reinhold NiebuhrAll social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
Reinhold Niebuhr