Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.