Maggie Gallagher Quotes

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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Love, Family, Mom

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• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Europe, Ideas

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• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Government, Majority, Prejudice

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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• Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Opportunity, Order, Europe

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• It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Different, Discrimination, Treats

  John Corvino, Maggie Gallagher (2012). “Debating Same-Sex Marriage”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Europe, Names, Democracy

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Reading, School, Math

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• Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans
  dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
  and marriage alone, we despair.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, America, Optimism

  4 Copy quote

• No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Suicide, Law, Giving

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• Same-sex marriage is not the future.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex

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• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Curriculum

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• I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Regret, Children, World

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• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Catholic, Ordinary

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• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Exercise, Government, Political

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• Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Wedding, Preparation, Married

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• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Rights, White, Racism

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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Desire, Culture, Failing

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• Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Children, Trying, Figures

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• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Uprising, Parent, Rebel

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• Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Happiness, Eye, Romantic Love

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• At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Husband, Heart, Gay

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• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Suicide, Oregon, Unions

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