In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . .

How many of us teach our own children to be dignified, free? How many of us knowingly teach them to be poor? How many dignified, free men does our society, our world need?...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.