I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.