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William F. Buckley Jr.
“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
William F. Buckley Jr.

H.L. Mencken
“There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.”
H.L. Mencken

William Gibson
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
William Gibson, Count Zero

Lyndon B. Johnson
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”
Lyndon Baines Johnson

William F. Buckley Jr.
“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”
William F. Buckley

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