Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.