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Oliver DeMille

The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home. . . . They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things.

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The U. S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

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Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more.

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We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

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Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.

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