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.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.