Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.