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.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

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

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.