There's no such thing as society.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.