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title: "10 National Review Quotes by 10 authors"
description: "Browse 10 National Review quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best National Review sayings and thoughts."
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> [“National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-f-buckley-jr-2/national-review-will-support-the-rightwardmost-viable-candidate/)

[William F. Buckley Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-f-buckley-jr-2/)

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> ['National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mallon/national-review-came-along-in-55-at-the-moment-when-american/)

[Thomas Mallon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mallon/)

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> [“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-will/national-review-s-premise-was-that-conformity-was-especially/)

[George will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-will/)

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> [ Basically \[I become a Republican\], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-sessions/basically-i-become-a-republican-pretty-early-i-had-an-english-teacher/)

[Jeff Sessions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-sessions/)

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> ['National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-bannon/national-review-and-the-weekly-standard-are-both-left-wing-magazines/)

[Steve Bannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-bannon/)

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> [Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kat-timpf/most-of-my-columns-at-national-review-focus-on-pc-culture-and/)

[Kat Timpf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kat-timpf/)

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> [If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-john-neuhaus/if-a-church-offers-no-truth-that-is-not-available-in-the-general/)

[Richard John Neuhaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-john-neuhaus/)

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> [Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-f-buckley-jr/before-there-was-ronald-reagan-there-was-barry-goldwater-and-before/)

[William F. Buckley, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-f-buckley-jr/)

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> [I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jake-tapper/i-ve-always-been-a-ravenous-consumer-of-opinion-when-i-was-in-my-high/)

[Jake Tapper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jake-tapper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/805/jake-tapper-4443_american_i-ve-always-been-a-ravenous-consumer-of_2563836.jpg)

> [“Post election in 1988, he famously swept a copy of Bill Buckley’s National Review off a coffee table in his Kennebunkport, Maine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-stone/post-election-in-1988-he-famously-swept-a-copy-of-bill-buckley-s/)

[Roger Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-stone/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/roger-stone-3555_national-review_post-election-in-1988-he-famously-swept_2847070.png)

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