Dante in 2004

Garrison Keillor's latest book, Homegrown Democrat, is brimming with inspiring and noteworthy passages. However, as I read about the persistently mounting casualties in Iraq, consider the expiration of the assault weapons ban, and ponder a man in whom September the 11th seems to stir hunger pangs more than patriotism, one particular quote comes to mind. Keillor, remembering a speech then-candidate John F. Kennedy gave at the University of Minnesota, recalls him saying:

"We have all made mistakes. But Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a party living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a party frozen in the ice of its own indifference."

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Nitpicking: you mis-typed "sins," as "since."

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