Thank you very much for this opportunity to participate in this great graduation
ceremony for the class of 2013.
I am truly honored to be with you today.
First of all, because I'm proud to be a Bronco.
A graduate of both undergrad and law school.
I needed all of the Jesuit grace and blessing I could get in order to survive
in Washington.
And a hell of a lot of Hail Marys.
I want to tell you that Steve Schott, who was in the same class that I was in
here at Santa Clara, we came here at I think what could fairly be called a very
different era.
It was an all-men school.
This was still pretty much a walled campus.
There were no dogs.
But there really were a lot of Jesuits around to make sure that we behaved.
Its emissaries are here.
And who are these emissaries?
They are Jesuits.
The society of men, after exerting their tyranny for upwards of 200 years at
length, became so formidable to the world, threatening the entire subversion of all
social order, that even the Pope, whose devoted subjects they are and must
be, by the vow of their society, was compelled to dissolve them.
From their vow of unqualified submission to the sovereign pontiff, they have been
appropriately called the Pope's bodyguard.
And do Americans need to be told what Jesuits are?
If any are ignorant, let them inform themselves of their history without delay.
No time is to be lost.
Their workings are before you in every day's events.
They are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order, with super-added features
of most revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.
Where the Jesuits set foot, it is as with the Turk.
No longer grass grows there.
Lord Palmerston, in 1853, said, The presence of the Jesuits in any country
is likely to disturb the political peace of that country.
There it is declared that the Jesuits' educational establishments tended to
cultivate a spirit which was contrary to the laws of the realm, and that the maxims
which were inculcated and the doctrines which were taught on the subject of
spiritual and temporal power endangered the morality and interfered with the
patriotism of the young.
Ab Armoth said, Do you wish to excite troubles, provoke revenge, to produce the
total ruin of your country?
Call in the Jesuits.
It must be obvious to every fair-minded individual that a society that in less
than three and one-half centuries has brought upon itself over eighty
expulsions, secured and repeated condemnation of princes, parliaments,
and popes, and finally its own complete suppression by the head of the church that
gave it birth, has no strong claims to exceptional favors in any free country.
Probably no other society ever organized among men has ever brought upon itself
such universal execration, excited so much opposition alike from its own allies and
its foes, and received such severe punishment at the hands of legislatures,
courts, and kings as the Society of Jesus.
I needed all of the Jesuit grace and blessing I could get in order to survive
in Washington.
Thanks for watching.