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The universal revolt against capitalist civilisation, carried out in the name of an ideal of human dignity and justice, proves that the Christian conscience may fall asleep, but it cannot die.

— Amintore Fanfani

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No one has ever died from eating lettuce, whereas politics has claimed many victims.

I am an effective and engaging teaching tool.

I have often been three or four years ahead of my contemporaries, and perhaps some of my political defeats are due to this.

Even if a party imprudently calls itself Catholic, it should not be subordinate to the Church. This is in the interests of both sides.

(About Alcide De Gasperi) He was one of the very few men from whom I never heard a disrespectful opinion about anyone.

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