Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.