American - Journalist | July 20, 1934 - March 3, 2015
From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
M. Stanton Evans
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
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