William F. Buckley, Jr.
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"William Frank Buckley, Jr." was an Conservatism in the United States/American conservative author and political commentator/commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement. He hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, where he became known for his Mid-Atlantic English/transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary. He also wrote a nationally Print syndication/syndicated newspaper columnist/column, and wrote numerous spy novels.

George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusionism (politics)/fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.