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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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John Calvin Thomas
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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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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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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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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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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.
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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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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
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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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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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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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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
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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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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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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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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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I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.
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