"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Blessed John Paul II

Pope John Paul II was beatified today, the first step toward sainthood.   John Paul II was arguably the greatest man of the 20th Century.   The only man who even might be in the argument would be Winston Churchill, in my judgment.  FDR and Ronald Reagan and Gandhi might be in the next tier down.  

The crowds in Rome agree:  

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