58 Quotes by Michael Novak

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Marriage, the family unit, was the “original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.”

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness – justice in each event.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It’s a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You’ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Everything I do that I’m enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don’t – I mean I’ve done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn’t really there. And I don’t do those anymore.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it’s one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Don’t be afraid of anything. We’ve seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.