Cal Thomas Quotes

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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.

Cal Thomas
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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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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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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If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.

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With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia.' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.

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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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When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness.

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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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Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

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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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In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?

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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

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