"What I have said is that the European thing is essentially a Catholic thing, and that European values would disappear with the disappearance of Catholicism."

"An ingrained habit of the defensive is the prime condition of defeat. There is no such thing as a defensive battle or a defensive campaign, save in the sense that we may begin on the defensive, but only with the fixed object of turning to the offensive at the right moment."

"The orthodox seem to feel, in approaching the sceptics, that they were dealing with superiors. It ought to be just the other way. The people who are in the tradition of Europe, who have behind them the whole momentum of civilisation, who have humour and common sense as the products of Faith, ought to approach their contradictors as inferiors."

"The difficulty just now is that English Catholics do not present it at all. They fiddle about with unimportant things of detail or fill the air with hymns of praise of Protestants for being allowed to live."