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“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

“Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”. –Jon Postel

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

“I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war”. –Jerry Falwell

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

“Whenever you’re successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product”. –Carl Karcher

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody”. –Virginia Woolf

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James