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I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William Safire

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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New York City
New York
William Lewis Safire
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In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'
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The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
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We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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To communicate, put your words in order give them a purpose use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
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Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
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It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
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President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
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If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.
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