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.

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.

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 .

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.

Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

Please, baby, you had to know the Devil would be well endowed.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.