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Irving Kristol has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very…
• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country…
• If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever…
• An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular…
• A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has…
• There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for…
• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
• I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than…
• What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.
• The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
• The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication…

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