Libertas Quotes

“Having a false and absurd notion as to what liberty is, either they pervert the very idea of freedom, or they extend it at their pleasure to many things in respect of which man cannot rightly be regarded as free.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Libertas: On the Nature of Human Liberty

“To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Libertas: On the Nature of Human Liberty

“In this true liberty consists: being free to live according to right reason.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Libertas: On the Nature of Human Liberty