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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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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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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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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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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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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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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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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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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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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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