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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

Pope Leo XIII

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
POPE LEO XIII

Human Man Money Myself Power Regard Shame Treat
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
POPE LEO XIII

Authority Nature Power Process Right
The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
POPE LEO XIII

Atheist Equality Myself Religion Tolerance
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
POPE LEO XIII

Himself Man Nature Property Right
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
POPE LEO XIII

Earth God Hold Place
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
POPE LEO XIII

Attack Book Defeat Foundation Myself Religion Writing
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
POPE LEO XIII

Advantage Detail Liberty Myself Origin Publish Thinking
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
POPE LEO XIII

Fear History Law Open State
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Children Earth Family God Himself Religion
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Blessing Evil Excellence Forever Form Life Ourselves Prayer
The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
POPE LEO XIII

Forever God Oneself Religious
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Age Defend Man Present Rich Slave Work
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.
POPE LEO XIII

Capacity Community Difference Equality Myself People Result Strength
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
POPE LEO XIII

Enough Money Support Wage
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
POPE LEO XIII

Animal Creation Man Nature Oneself Possession Right
Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
POPE LEO XIII

Courage Goodness Greatness

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