The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.