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

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

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

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.