Dogma

This is called being free from the fetters of Dogma; and it means holding opinions without knowing why. GKC

Cardinal Cormac

while Cormac is a very very nice man, he’s also a terrible snob –

Social

we all know that when used as a modifier, “social” means “not”; e.g., social justice, social security, social worker, etc.).

GKC on prohibition

But a Constitution is simply the statement of how laws are made. It has no business whatever with saying which laws should be made.

GKC

G.K. Chesterton observed that "sex is the materialist's religion."

Vatican visitation

I have a confession to make: Part of me hopes that the Vatican will lay down the law and warmly invite us to return to a semblance of religious life that we once lived prior to our expensive monthly perms, our fashion designer clothes and the select-your-own-autonomy mode of life which we have exercised for the past four decades.

People

And you don't learn to know what people need by fitting them into
your neat little categories, or matching them to your little store-bought
theories.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford is "chilled by the cold of some interior winter."

Purposeless effort

effort expended without purpose served no purpose, other than its own perpetuation....

Eisenhower

His presidential warnings to American warmongers are reminiscent of Clausewitz's discussion of the nature of war: "Remember this: when you resort to force as the arbiter of human difficulty, you don't know where you are going; but generally speaking, if you get deeper and deeper, there is just no limit except what is imposed by the limitations of force itself." (37)

Eisenhower

Eisenhower was not, of course, a military theorist in any academic sense; a cynic might be tempted to speculate that this was why he was so successful.

Jerry Brown

Brown loves to campaign, but not to govern.

Reagan on weapons

Ronald Reagan mused in his office 25 years ago. "Man has never had a weapon he didn't use,"

Pius XII on virginity

37. We have recently with sorrow censured the opinion of those who contend that marriage is the only means of assuring the natural development and perfection of the human personality.[60] For there are those who maintain that the grace of the sacrament, conferred ex opere operato, renders the use of marriage so holy as to be a fitter instrument than virginity for uniting souls with God; for marriage is a sacrament, but not virginity. We denounce this doctrine as a dangerous error. Certainly, the sacrament grants the married couple the grace to accomplish holily the duties of their married state, and it strengthens the bonds of mutual affection that unite them; but the purpose of its institution was not to make the employment of marriage the means, most suitable in itself, for uniting the souls of the husband and wife with God by the bonds of charity.[61]

Seminarians

the worldwide surge in seminarians-- the number increased from 63,882 in 1978 to 117,024 in 2008--

Patton

In his diary, Patton confided what he thought of Jews. Others might "believe that the Displaced Person is a human being," Patton wrote, but he knew "he is not." In particular, he whispered to his diary, the Jews "are lower than animals."

Television commentators

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