Before The Curse Of Statistics Fell Upon

The Worship Of The Nation Has Been Able To Make Men Tolerate Under Its Authority What They Could Never Have Tolerated From Princes: A Submission To Rule, Which, Through Sumptuary Laws On Food And Drink, Through Conscription, Through A Cast-iron System Of Compulsory Instruction For All On State Ordered Lines, And Through A State Examination At The Gate Of Every Profession, Has Almost Killed The Citizen's Power To React Upon That Which Controls Him, And Has Almost Destroyed That Variety Which Is The Mark Of Life.

How On Earth Could That Be Done? If You Try To Laugh And Say 'no' At The Same Time, It Sounds Like Neighing - Yet People Are Perpetually Doing It In Novels. If They Did It In Real Life They Would Be Locked Up.

The Devil, Having Nothing Else To Do Went Off To Tempt My Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, Tempted By A Private Whim, To His Extreme Annoyance, Tempted Him.

The Control Of The Production Of Wealth Is The Control Of Human Life Itself.

It Was The Faith Which Gradually And Indirectly Transformed The Slave Into The Serf, And The Serf Into The Free Peasant... You Will Not Be Able To Set Up In A Pagan Or An Heretical Or A Wholly Indifferent Society The Institutions Characteristic Of Economic Freedom; You Will Not Be Able To Curb Competition Which Alone Would Be Sufficient To Destroy Such Freedom, Nor Pursue Permanently And Consecutively Any One Part Of The Program. The Thing Must Be Done As A Whole, And It Can Be Done As A Whole Only By The Ambient Influence Of Catholicism.