Faith supported the non-juring clergy, the state supported the juring – and the state embarked on a long, gloomy, and unsuccessful struggle to impose its will in a sphere in which it did not belong. —Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 150

Jerome's translation of Origen's On the First Principles

In the introduction to his translation, Rufinus implied that Jerome was a follower of Origen. Jerome was so incensed that he produced his own translation. Jerome’s translation has been lost in its entirety. Origen, in Wikipedia

Saul and Balaam and Caiaphas prophesied; the sons of Seæva in the Acts of the Apostles were seen to cast out dæmons; and Judas with the soul of a traitor is related to have wrought many signs among the other Apostles. —Jerome

The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a statement of the rights which belong to men because they are human beings, which are not the gift of any government. —Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 140

F: That is not the “gotcha” that you think it is. I have not. “The statute books are full of laws, of which the Sherman Act is a good example, that effectively authorize courts to create new lines of law.”

W: Does the text say that? Does it have a “delegation to judges to develop new law” clause?

F: Well, no.

—Evan D. Bernick, “Beyond Law?: A Socratic Dialogue Inspired by Baude’s ‘Beyond Textualism?'"

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Carl L. Lokke, “Charles Downer Hazen”, Vermont History, July 1958

The evil that men do lives after them. —Charles Downer Hazen, Modern Europe, 1920, p. 759

The French Revolution has been frequently ascribed to the influence of the “philosophers” or writers of the 18C. This is putting the cart before the horse. The manifold ills from which the nation suffered only too palpably were the primary cause of the demand for a cure. —Hazen, Modern Europe, pp. 105–106

“You can’t go back.” twitter.com/LeoTheLes…

No bankruptcy, no increase of taxation, no more borrowing. —Turgot to King Louis XVI, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 117

My God is greater than your idol.

You don’t have to believe in hell to go there.

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Maybe I am envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheistic joke, which I of all people could have perpetrated: “God’s only excuse is that He does not exist”. —Nietzsche

I and the Father are one. Sc. 62, John 10:30

I’ve overthrown the world. Sc. 82, John 16:33

This happens in each one’s mind and heart who believes in Christ.

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Instead of “the Sacrament of Love”, say “God”.

At the moment of adoration, we are all equal, kneeling before the Sacrament of Love. — Benedict XVI

Dear Leo:

A Cleveland would be a good president today, don’t you think?

Henry [F. Graff, 2007]