Let us preserve freedom. Let us cherish freedom — freedom of conscience, religious freedom, the freedom of each person, each family, each people.
– Pope Francis, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., September 26, 2015

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor.
– St. Teresa of Calcutta

Authentic democracy is possible only in a State ruled by law, and on the basis of a correct conception of the human person… Nowadays there is a tendency to claim that agnosticism and skeptical relativism are the philosophy and the basic attitude which correspond to democratic forms of political life… As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
—Pope St. John Paul II in Centesimus Annus, No. 46

It is therefore urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority and no State can ever create, modify or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect and promote. Consequently there is a need to recover the basic elements of a vision of the relationship between civil law and moral law, which are put forward by the Church, but which are also part of the patrimony of the great juridical traditions of humanity.
—Pope St. John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae, Nos. 70, 71

Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today—abortion which brings people to such blindness.
— St. Teresa of Calcutta