Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvis… - William F. Buckley Jr.
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Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.
William F. Buckley, Jr. (November 24 1925 - February 27 2008) was an American author, conservative journalist, who founded the conservative political magazine National Review in 1955 and hosted the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999.
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Also Known As
Native Name:
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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William Frank Buckley Jr.
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William Frank Buckley
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
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.
