If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

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

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

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

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

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.