Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

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 .

Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

Don’t give up on yourself, your family and your nation.

don't know what demi means but i'm not feeling to godly you guys feeling godly?

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

Accusations are useless.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.