William F-Yeah Buckley @williamfyeahbuckley - Tumblr Blog

Krauthammer calls the failed Obamacare system a parody of liberalism. We think WFB would agree. Watch the video here: http://natl.re/19Qifwv

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The answer is yes.

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On Meet the Press, while running for mayor.

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It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens’ lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress. The growth of government (the dominant social feature of this century) must be fought relentlessly. In this great social conflict of the era, we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side.

The first of National Review's "convictions," written in 1955.

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If health insurance were without cost, one assumes that everyone would have health insurance. A corollary of this is that everyone, in a society of allegedly free health care, would actually be paying the collective costs of health care. The political challenge lies in disguising the cost.

On healthcare.

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RUSH: He was in the classical sense an intellectual, but he knew where the power in this country came from, and he loved people. He had a profound, deep respect for them. He would have been right at home in the Tea Party.

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