"The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past."

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Clinton Rossiter

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“I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.”
“Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.”
“I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.”
“Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.”

Source : Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”
“I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.”
“I like songs that are simple.”
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”
“I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.”

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