I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
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Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americansthis columnist includedhitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say Give that mob more money Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.George F. Will
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