That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.