Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.
The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.
(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers...
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.
The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.
The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.
If you want to stop the war machine, you’ll have to go after the money machine.
Most arguments about income inequality are based on static analysis.
America’s poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.
If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.
As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.
Reagan has become the Right’s Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired.
A conservative recognizes a hierarchy of concerns: I owe my children, my neighbors, and my co-religionists much more than I owe anyone in Iraq or anywhere else. Cicero, like so many figures in our cla...