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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 24
Died: 2008
Died: February 27
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They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.
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The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
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Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.
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We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
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One doesn't read Jane Austen one re-reads Jane Austen.
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One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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All adventure is now reactionary.
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What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
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[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
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Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
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...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
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Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.
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The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
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