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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .…
• Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather…
• Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a…
• We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds…
• Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals…
• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
• I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
• But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government
• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price…
• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's…
• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds…

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