Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

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

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.