We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

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 church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

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

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.