Fish on liberalism

"Liberal universalism, with its superficial respect for everyone (as long as everyone is superficial) and its deep respect for no one, can’t do it".

Vince Lombardi

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
~Vince Lombardi

TR

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
~Theodore Roosevelt

Eugenics

Dr. Hannah Stone, a Jewish physician who served as Sanger's clinic director, and wrote in Eugenics, the journal of the American Eugenics Society (AES): "Not to unlimited procreation but rather to controlled propagation based upon a knowledge of the laws of genetics and eugenics must we look for the production of a superior race and a higher intellectual status."

S Fish liberalism

Religious rights “can only be effectively defended pursuant to a specific and distinctly religious framework.” Liberal universalism, with its superficial respect for everyone (as long as everyone is superficial) and its deep respect for no one, can’t do it.

Bishops

Once you become a bishop you never get bad news or a bad meal

M S Winters on the NYT

The friend I consult on environmental matters tells me that when she reads the Times on the subject, she assumes they will get it wrong.