Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where … - Paul Weyrich

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In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.

Paul Weyrich

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

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They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome. ' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

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The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

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Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins. . . . He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

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One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

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