One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

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.

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

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

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