Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

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

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

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.