"Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different."

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Source : Peter Viereck (1950). “Conservatism Revisited”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

Peter Viereck

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“My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.”
“I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.”
“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
“Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.”
“Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.”
“I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.”
“Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school, so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.”

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