Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.