* When the State arrogates such dominion to itself as absolute master, the family is in danger

* Mary, help of souls and nations / Nobody knows and comprehends so well as She everything that concerns us: what helps we need in life; what dangers, public or private, threaten our welfare.

* All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin who has destroyed all heresies / in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, and impregnable stronghold of the holy Church.

* St. Paul did not restrict, gloss over or tone down what Christ taught / For our "Preacher of truth" never imagined that he should avoid such subjects, because, owing to the corruption of the age, they appeared too stern to his hearers.

* The victory will ever be with God / The desire for peace is certainly harbored in every breast, and there is no one who does not ardently invoke it. But to want peace without God is an absurdity, seeing that where God is absent thence too justice flies, and when justice is taken away it is vain to cherish the hope of peace. "Peace is the work of justice".

* Man's rights spring from his duty toward God / As soon as the State refuses to give to God what belongs to God, by a necessary consequence it refuses to give to citizens that to which, as men, they have a right.

* "For sin maketh nations miserable" / The Church, it is certain, at no time and in no particular is deserted by God; hence, there is no reason why she should bealarmed at the wickedness of men; but in the case of nations falling away from Christian virtue there is not a like ground of assurance.

* "Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good" - "The Church to undertake the defense of truth and uproot errors from the mind, and this charge has to be at all times sacredly observed by her".

* The hallucinations of timid soldiers or treacherous / "Any composition were possible between light and darkness, between Christ and Belial".

* Slowness and timidity in good people - the enemies of the Church become bolder in their attacks

* "The nations have raged and the peoples imagined vain things" against their Creator

* Popes and punishments: "God's punishment is a way to make sinners who are deaf to other appeals turn back to the right path"

* "In truth, peace is in danger where public opinion ceases to function freely" - The importance of the Catholic Press