For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

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.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

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

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.