“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.Anonymous
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.Thomas Hobbes
“Learn how to be a policeman, because that cannot be improvised. As regards being pope, you will see later. Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.Pope John (XXIII)