A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.