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“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.”

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Author:William F. Buckley Jr.

“I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.”

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Book:Up from Liberalism

Source: Up from Liberalism

“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which at all times in history has been caused by direct government action or by government influence. As for aggravated unemployment, the individualist insists that it is exclusively the result of government intervention through inflation, wage rigidities, burdensome taxes, and restrictions on trade and production such as price controls and tariffs. The inflation that comes inevitably with government pump-priming soon catches up with the laborer, wipes away any real increase in his wages, discourages private investment, and sets off a new deflationary spiral which can in turn only be counteracted by more coercive and paternalistic government policies. And so it is that the "long run" is very soon a-coming, and the harmful effects of government intervention are far more durable than those that are sustained by encouraging the unhampered free market to work out its own destiny.”

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Book:God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

Source: God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

“She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)”

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Author:William F. Buckley Jr.

“Henry Kissinger said in 1968: Word should be gotten to Nixon that, if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world, that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”

Author:William F. Buckley Jr.