I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.