A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.