Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

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

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.