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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
Columnist
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Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
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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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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
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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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In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.
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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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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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No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.
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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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Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
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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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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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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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