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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
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As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.
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The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
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The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
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Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.
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If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
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The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
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Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
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The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
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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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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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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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