Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.