Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.