He concluded with these words: I have often asked myself why human beings have any rights at all. I have always come to the conclusion that human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values . . . make sense only in the perspective of the infinite and the eternal . . . Allow me to conclude my remarks on the state and its probable role in future with the assertion that, while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
