“Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race.”

Start of Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) The History of Freedom

“Her choice [that of the mother/title character in the novel Sophie's Choice] is plainly evil; for the sake of a better result, she has united herself with the sin of the murderer. And in the end the other child dies too. But how could she choose otherwise, if she had no faith in God?”

J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know

“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy

“‘Don’t be a fly on the wall,’ wise cons advise. ‘Be the wall.’”

Maclean’s April 9, 2001 [I did not record the name of the author]

“Four park benches sit on the lawn at Wesley United Church at Main and Graham, offering weary passersby a place to rest. They aren’t chained or locked. One of the slats in the benches bears the inscription: ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ But it’s probably the added inscription on the next slat that is most effective. ‘God is watching.’”

Dave Brown Best of Brown