For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

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.