Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

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.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.