Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.

Dwell purely on positive thoughts.

When you know the destination, the path is easy.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets.

Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.

Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I always composed music as a little kid.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.