...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Tuhan, karuniailah saya ketabahan untuk menerima hal-hal yang tidak bisa saya ubah,

Keberanian untuk mengubah hal-hal yang bisa saya ubah,

Dan kebijaksanaan untuk membedakan keduanya.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

"English political sagacity is compounded of instinctive reactions to immediate situations and a wisdom, gained by cumulative experience, which guides instinct through the complexities, intricacies and imponderabilities of modern politics. The most typical social philosopher of England is not John Locke but Edmund Burke. Constitutional government may have found its first justification in the rationally elaborated theories of "rights" in the philosophy of the former. But the actual history of constitutionalism in England has been dominated by the logic expressed in the philosophy of the latter. The Englishman trusts not in the abstract "natural rights" dictated by reason, but the "English rights" which are guaranteed to him by his own history."