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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: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
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Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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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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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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To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.
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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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