The Editor's Favorite
Notes and "Quotes"

"I could make myself safer by changing my views,
but why would I abandon what I think is true
so that people I think are wrong will like me?
That doesn't make sense.
So I stand where I stand and pay.
And you know what?  Too bad.  Tough.  That's life."
Peggy Noonan
Wall Street Journal

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes,
our ancestors.  It is the democracy of the dead.
Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy
of those who happen to be walking about."
G.K. Chesterton
Most Important Writer of the 20 Century

"The denial of truth is not to be tolerated.
There are not two sides to every question,
nor, indeed, to any!
You cannot convert men to truth
by seeming to meet them half-way."
The Rod, The Root, and The Flower
Coventry Patmore

"Our universities do not give the country
intellectual, cultural, or political leadership.
They are answering questions that no one asks
and giving answers that no one can understand."
C. John Sommerville
University of Florida

"Killing babies is not a little thing.
Differences of 'opinion' about killing babies
cannot simply be politely swept aside ...
I can love my enemies, but I cannot pretend
that I like or respect their views."
Rev. David Armstrong, Congregational Church
Letter to Editor in TOUCHSTONE Magazine, May 2003

"It is no wonder that four out of five young women today
are so turned off by negative attitudes
toward men, marriage, and motherhood
that they reject even the term feminism."
Richard John Neuhaus
FIRST THINGS, June/July 2003