Against the Robots

The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to Emperor Napoleon III, said this: “Sire, when great politicians like Your Majesty object that the time has not yet come, I have no choice but to bow down because I am not a great politician. But I am a bishop, and as a bishop I answer them: the time has not yet come for Jesus Christ to reign? Well then! Then the time has not yet come for governments to last.”