The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Martin Luther King Jr.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

Like a wild animal, the truth is often too powerful to remain caged. -From the Candor faction manifesto

Veronica Roth

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Henry David Thoreau

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann von Goethe

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Richard Cobden

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James