George Weigel

“Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.”

“Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.”

“Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.”

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”