It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.