"It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly……" — Hilaire Belloc
"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 anyone 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."
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84 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last…
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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you…
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the…
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