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…

- Michael Novak

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

- Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

- Michael Novak

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tra…

- Michael Novak

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainme…

- Michael Novak

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

- Michael Novak

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 …

- Michael Novak

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

- Michael Novak

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…

- Michael Novak