"I am a member of the rabble in good standing."

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Source : "Rabble-rouser" by William F. Buckley, Jr., www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2004.

Westbrook Pegler

#Members Quotes #Standing Quotes

“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
“There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.”
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
“I want to start replacing my â€œfixâ€ response with an â€œenjoyâ€ response and just let people be themselves.”
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.”

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.357, Penguin
“My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”

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