The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.