When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire BellocEconomic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.
Hilaire BellocI'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire BellocI always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.
Hilaire Belloc