The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory