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Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

by Timothy J. Keller

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Nov 03, 2014 06:01PM

“Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.”
― Ron Paul

tags: education, politics

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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics

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“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: government, political-philosophy, politics, scope-of-government

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“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: education, freedom, liberty, wisdom

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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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