Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the others eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. – Maggie Gallagher
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. – Maggie Gallagher
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. – Maggie Gallagher
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. – Maggie Gallagher
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge