The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.