Maggie Gallagher Quotes

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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of…
• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
• In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business,…
• I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will…
• Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.
• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became…
• Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's…
• Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are…
• Same-sex marriage is not the future.
• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
• Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
• The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t…
• It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.
• At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband…
• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of…
• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
• Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of…
• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

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