For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

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

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.