The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . .

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.