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

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

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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