It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

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

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

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