Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The moral achievement of statesmen must be judged in terms which take account of the limitations of human society which the statesman must, and the prophet need not, consider.

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.