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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. — Irving Kristol

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. — Irving Kristol

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. — Irving Kristol

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. — Irving Kristol

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this. — B.J. Penn

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. — Irving Kristol

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol

If you haven't made any mistakes lately, then obviously you haven't been trying too hard. — Mark W. Boyer

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. — Jeff Cooper

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during. — Irving Kristol

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. — Irving Kristol

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working. — Mark Hyman

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. — Irving Kristol

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book. — Irving Kristol

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less. — Mark Bryan

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. — Irving Kristol

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton

Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night. — Chrissy Moon

It was a new kind of class war
the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. — Irving Kristol

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. — Ludwig Von Mises

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. — Susan Abulhawa

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want — John Cage

The world belongs to passionate driven people. — Jack Welch

If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don't have a life. — Dave Ramsey

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. — Irving Kristol

A man defines
himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses. — Albert Camus

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. — Irving Kristol

The most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. — Irving Kristol