Cal Thomas Quotes

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.