A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

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.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.