Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.