“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.”

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

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

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

I’ll always defend the people I Love.

I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt – and the key word is ‘try’ – I’m ready to give them that opportunity.

I’m definitely an active champion. I’m looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.