When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant... You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively any one part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.