Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.