No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.