Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 9, 1933 Death: February 17, 2017
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will ….
Granted that I must die, how shall I live?.
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republ….
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute….
To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor..
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty….
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainme….
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tra….
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.".
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia..
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work..
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord..
Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event..
The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth..
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise econom….
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is….
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, ….
I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a….
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, ….
Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of u….
There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry..