Quotes

"The man of righteous anger will not see the idiocy of evil and error stand triumphant over the fallen body of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful." --Dr. Peter Chojnowski.

“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken

"Liberalism is a lie. Liberalism can only win when it lies. Liberals don't dare tell you the truth." –Rush Limbaugh

"In America, the young are always ready to give those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."-- Oscar Wilde.

"The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense."

"Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence." -- G. K. Chesterton

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.” --Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy.

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” -- Mark Twain

“The true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged.” - Czeslaw Milosz

“Men have forgotten God.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Medieval people never worried about being medieval; and modern people do worry horribly about being modern." – G. K. Chesterton

"Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists."
-- G. K. Chesterton

“I think the notion that the species can be improved is in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom.” --Cormac McCarthy

“The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.” –Benjamin Franklin Also “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

"There is no torture greater than that of a man who is unable to express what is in his soul."—Michel de Montaigne

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." --G. K. Chesterton

“The Church is the one thing that prevents a man from the degrading servitude of being a child of his own time.” --G. K. Chesterton (A favorite quote of Alec Guinness, Catholic convert)

“[Karl] Marx never did a day of work in his life . . .” --Eric Hoffer

"There can be no peace without justice." --Pope John Paul II

"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people." --Edmund Burke

"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell." --Thomas Merton

"Where annual elections end, there slavery begins." -- John Adams

Books

“Modern Physics and Ancient Faith”
by Stephen M. Barr
“The Ordeal of Change”
by Eric Hoffer
“Tenured Radicals: How Politics has Corrupted Our Higher Education.”
by Roger Kimball
“The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization”
by Diana West

Blogroll

The American Thinker
A Babe in the Universe
The Catholic Report
FIRST THINGS
FrontPage Magazine
mee.nu
The New Birdlog
The Old New Birdlog
Old Theory=Dogma
Townhall
Strategy Page

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