“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.” MayBookSoulEndsMatterWholeHandsEvilHeavenJusticeDarknessHellDutyReaderWeaknessConscienceAngelTreatsBlindInjusticeStartingDetailsExceptionGapsAppetiteDecayDaylightArrivalsStarting PointLimboFalsityHydra Author:Victor Hugo
“He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.” YearsSometimesIndividualJusticeMoralRightsRepublicanConscienceBuiltCourtProtectionReputationFierceLifelongIndividual RightsMoral Conscience Author:Judy Woodruff
“Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.” MenMadeMatterLawGivenJusticeCommonWiseAuthorityConscienceDignityDuesObedienceConformityCommon Good Author:Pope Pius XI
“It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.” PeopleShouldWellsMayReasonFatherChurchReligiousJusticeLibertyPrinciplesAtheismEqualBenefitsConscienceContraryPermitGood PeopleRemedyCompelledChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateMaintenanceOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianCommonwealthUs Founding FathersSeparation Between Church And StateFounding Fathers ReligiousFounding Fathers Of AmericaAmerican Founding FathersChristian Father Author:George Mason