Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.