"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
-George Will
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.“
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"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."
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"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
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"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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