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.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

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

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

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.