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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
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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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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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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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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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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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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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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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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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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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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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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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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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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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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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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