Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Well of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Almost certainly however the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food man can live at most but a few weeks without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

The course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear justice and cruelty have always been at war and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.