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.
POPE LEO XIIIInadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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.
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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.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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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.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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