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

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.