It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.