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Nancy Pearcey Quotes

American - Author | 1952 -

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Good Best Competition People Always

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

Leadership Beginning Church Paris

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Marriage Language Create Elegant

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Struggle Blessings Political Survival

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Friend Freedom American House White

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

Knowledge Power Society Facts

Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

Education Children Creative Turn

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Teacher Government School You Matter

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

Children Rest Skill Aim Will Adult

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Life Relentless Impatient Every Area

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

Freedom Society American Political

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

Celebrate Thought Christian Holiday

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