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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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John Calvin Thomas
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People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.
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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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