If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.