The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.