The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.

We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.