“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.”
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.