The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.” — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
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