The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"The Academy Awards
is the world's largest student body election."
Michael Medved
Author-Commentator, February 26th, 2005


"Creating and commending is better than complaining."
Michael Medved
Author-Commentator, February 26th, 2005

"Those who pray will certainly not be damned."
Alphonsus Liguori
Doctor of the Church, Doctor of Law, 1696-1787


"The end can justify the means but it cannot justify any means;
it cannot justify evil means."
Richard John Neuhaus
First Things, December 2004

"Doing away with capital punishment teaches that life is sacred.
It teaches that only God can say when life ought to begin
and when it ought to end.
And it teaches that true justice is only achieved in eternity."
(The Rev.) John R. Waiss
Tilden Study Center, Los Angeles, CA
in First Things, December 2004

"When the state takes a life in punishment,
it is taking what belongs to God and not to the criminal."
Paul A. Hottinger
Downers Grove, Illinois, in First Things, December 2004

"Young people want heroes.
They want those who save lives, fight for lives, mourn for lives."
John O'Keeffe
Colorado Springs, CO, in First Things, December 2004

"I find it deeply disquieting that people want Terry Schiavo dead."
Bill Kristol
The Weekly Standard, March 22, 05

"We have been peaceful as doves.
It is now time to be wise as serpents."
F. Fraser Field
Education Resource Center, February 3rd, 2005

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