History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

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

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

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.