The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.- Francois Fenelon

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - Mackenzie King, 1874 - 1950

But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned. The new movements which appeared in the

middle years of the century ... had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality.

These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze

history at a chosen moment. The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop. As

usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High. ... What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made

up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity

experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose

origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped

and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. As

compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by

luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more

intent on crushing opposition. -Chapter I, Ignorance is Strength, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein (The 'Book within a Book' from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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They say crime is illness. Now if that were true, there could be no moral act whatsoever. If man is

not free to choose evil, he is not free to choose good . . . . Everyone must remember the story of

the murderer who said in court: “You can’t blame me, it was my heredity and environment that caused

me to kill” and the judge who replied, “It is my heredity and environment that sentences you to hang

by the neck until dead.” -“The Death of Christian Culture” by Dr. John Senior. Quoted by Ann Barnhardt, "There Must Be A Reckoning (Part 2)" http://barnhardt.biz/index.cfm

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means

doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case,

the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. - C. S. Lewis