"IN any conflict where the human masses are at stake, whatever the hazards of the great physical shocks, it is always the strongest idea, the most just, which prevails. The life of peoples, like the life of men, is affirmative: a code of negations will never be able to subjugate it, especially the code that wants to force man to believe that he has no soul and no other status but that of an animal. Physical violence may exert its fury, but a strong idea will be ever stronger. And the strong idea will always be the idea of Love, essentially creative." -- Adrien Arcand, Is Christianity Bankrupt? (Based on two talks in Montreal in 1954)  

As your president, I will fight for democracy with every fiber of my being, and I'm asking every American to join me. --- Joe Biden, September 1, 2022 ""IS there today in this world a word more widely used, either on this side or the other of the “Iron Curtain”? The word is never defined because no definition can be proved by the reality of concrete facts. However, we venerate this word the most, respect it the most, and offer up the most incense to it. It is the first and last word, the alpha and the omega which encompasses all, which contains all within it. If you live, if you breathe, if you can eat, work, sing, dream, sometimes be happy, if the steam engine works, if electricity serves its purpose, if the microscope enlarges objects, if we have theaters and hospitals, if the sun shines and the wheat grows, if the rivers flow and the wind blows, if you can even believe in something and raise up temples, there is only one explanation for it all: DEMOCRACY! Eliminate democracy, it’s the end of the world, oblivion. Listen to our liberals, our socialists and our communists shout out the word, gargle it with hysterical tremolos, see them roll their ecstatic eyes when they declaim it, their mouths pasty, foaming, and you will understand the importance given to this idol, this fetish of modern times that liberalism makes us adore…

“THE advent of a Universal Republic, desired by all the worst elements of disorder and awaited by them with confidence, is an idea already ripe for realization. From this Republic, founded on the principles of the absolute equality of men and community of goods, will be banished all national distinctions; the authority of the father over his children will not be recognized, nor that of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, an unprecedented reign of terror will inevitably follow. Already, even in our day, a vast portion of Europe is passing through this sad experience and we see that it is sought to extend this state of things to other regions”. -- Pope Benedict XV, "Bonum Sane," 1920