A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

The incarnational worldview grounds Christian holiness in objective and ontological reality instead of just moral behavior.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Personal liberty is not personal license.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.