The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you vio…

(on Nicolae Ceausescu) Our goals are the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in pe…

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

That men ought to be governed, seems to have been agreed on all hands: the reason is, that, without government, they could never attain any high or permanent s…