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

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.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

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.

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

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.