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

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

Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.