The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.