Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.