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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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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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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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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
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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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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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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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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
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Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.
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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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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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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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Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.
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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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