"A tree that falls makes more noise

than a forest that grows."

Pope Francis

at World Youth Day 2013

 

"Only a well educated people

can be permanently a free people."

Robert P. George

Quoting James Madison in "Ruling to Serve,"

First Things, April 2013.

 

"The work of education is at root

the transmission of culture --

of a body of knowledge

and a way of situating ourselves in the world

so as to seek understanding and live well."

Ken Myers

"The Lost Sense of Meaning" in Touchstone,

May/June 2013.

 

"If we can't judge what's right and wrong,

we're in deep trouble, and we are."

Judge Robert Bork

(1927-2012)

 

"Our Constitution was made only f

or a moral and religious people."

Robert P. George

Quoting John Adams in "Ruling to Serve,"

First Things, April 2013.

 

"A people lacking in virtue

can be counted on to trade liberty for protection,

for financial or personal security, for comfort,

for being looked after,

for being taken care of,

for having their problems solved quickly."

Robert P. George

"Ruling to Serve" in First Things, April 2013.

 

"Friendship is possible

across any number of disparities and inequalities

if they're encompassed by

a larger common purpose, commitment, or belief."

R. R. Reno

"Solidarity" in First Things, June/July 2013

 

"Religion is a powerful source of solidarity

because it reassures us

that everybody is subject to the same higher authority."

R. R. Reno

"Solidarity" in First Things, June/July 2013.

 

"The government seeks to justify its impositions

as a guarantee of basic rights,

but there can be no right to assistance in wrongdoing."

Gerhard Ludwig Mϋller

"Faith's Political Witness" in First Things, April 2013.

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