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 moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Remote and ineffectual don.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

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

Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.