“This too is a truth well known to everyone who has taken even a slight hold of culture, that freedom is an honorable thing, and slavery a disgraceful thing, and that honorable things are associated with good men and disgraceful things with bad men. Hence, it clearly follows that no person of true worth is a slave, though threatened by a host of claimants who produce contracts to prove their ownership.”

&quot;Bishop Sheen Writes...Communism and Tragedy,&quot; The Toledo Blade, Sunday, July 26, 1959, sec. 2, p. 5. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22communists%20believe%20in%20the%20devil%22%20site:news.google.com/newspapers&amp;source=newspapers&amp;gws_rd=ssl#hl=en&amp;q=%22Bishop+Sheen+Writes...+Communism+And+Tragedy%22+ <br class="br">Context: No one can understand Communism who does not believe in the devil. The Communists believe in the devil. The Communists organized a so-called &quot;patriotic&quot; church. A few brain washed were to be in charge of the churches because they were loyal to the anti-God regime.<br>One of the first orders given by the Communists to them was that the prayer to Prayer to Saint Michael be no longer said because it invoked the protection of St. Michael against &quot;the wickedness and snares of the devil.&quot; As one Communist judge said: &quot;We are those devils.&quot;<br>It is hard for many in the free world to believe that there are not only bad men, but evil men. Bad men steal, rape, ravage and plunder. Evil men may not always do these things, but they seek to destroy goodness, virtue, morality, decency, truth and honor. Bad men who steal admit honesty; evil men who do not steal, call dishonesty &quot;honesty,&quot; totalitarianism &quot;democracy,&quot; slavery &quot;freedom.&quot; Evil men can be nice at table, polite with women, courteous in Washington, refined in London and calm in Geneva.<br>But the principle which guides their every move is the maxim of Lenin: every lie, trickery, knavery and deceit must be used to.

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 140

2000s, Is Diversity Good? (2003)

Source: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 59
Context: He [Grotius] avoided another danger as serious as his precocity had been. He steered clear of the quicksands of useless scholarship, which had engulfed so many strong men of his time. The zeal of learned men in that period was largely given to knowing things not worth knowing, to discussing things not worth discussing, to proving things not worth proving. Grotius seemed plunging on, with all sails set, into these quicksands; but again his good sense and sober judgment saved him: he decided to bring himself into the current of active life flowing through his land and time, and with this purpose he gave himself to the broad and thorough study of jurisprudence.

Source: The Analects

Letter from Paris to His Friend in Moscow (March 1st, 1849), Imperial Russia, A Sourcebook 1700-1917

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 150-151.

Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 4
Context: "There was a later time when sincere men tried to build an organization as wide as the world to secure the peace of the world. It had been tried before and it had failed before. Perhaps if it failed this time it would not be tried again for a very long while. The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad. The final realization of it was so close that it could be touched with the fingertips. A gambler wouldn't have given odds on it either way. It teetered, and it almost seemed as though it would succeed. Then members of that group interfered."
"And it failed, O'Claire?"
"No. It succeeded, Foley, as in the other case. It succeeded in so twisted a fashion that the Devil himself was puzzled as to whether he had gained or lost ground by it. And he isn't easily puzzled."