"What all men speak well of, look critically into; what all men condemn, examine first before you decide."
-Confucius

"If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they'd have a shortage of sand."
-Milton Friedman

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
-George Washington

"Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?"
-Pope Julius III

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-Barry Goldwater

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
-Charles De Gaulle

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
-Confucius

"The fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, and the fruit of service is peace."
-Mother Teresa

"So much of what people call atheism is not so much the negation of God as the deification of the ego. All atheists believe in God, but the god is themselves."
-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist."
-Pope Pius XI

"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
-Friedrich von Schiller

"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."
-G.K. Chesterson

"The true friends of the people are neither the revolutionaries nor the innovators, but the traditionalists"
-Pope St Pius X

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."
-General Omar Bradley

"Those therefore who after the manner of wicked heretics dare to set aside ecclesiastical traditions, and to invent any kind of novelty, or to reject any of those things entrusted to the Church, or who wrongfully and outrageously devise the destruction of any of those traditions enshrined in the Catholic Church, are to be punished thus: if they are bishops, we order them to be deposed..."
-Second Council of Nicea

"Catholics who remain faithful to Tradition, even if they are reduced to a handful, are the true church of Jesus Christ."
-St Athanasius