A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.