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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Watergate
Nixon
Richard Nixon
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He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.
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Debate
Winning
Writing
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No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.
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Looks
Matter
Thinking
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A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.
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Politics
Care
Long
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It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.
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Accomplishing Anything
Care
Credit
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Agree
Joe
Mccarthy
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Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.
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People
Policy
Position
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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Good People Stop
Our People
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On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.
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Can Do
People
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Things Happen
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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Fall
November
Bill
Entered
Published
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans / Journalist
Sex
Tax Cuts
Tax
Cuts
Pretty Good
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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Conflict
Tense
Nation
Politics Time World
Early
Explosive
Large
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I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
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My Time
Joe
Mccarthy
Paying
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It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
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Financing
Scandal
Article
Civic
Public Schools
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Dividing
Rough
Stopping
Time World Will
Communists
Crossed
Recall
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Conservatives
Discover
Drain
Swamp
Tub
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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Battle
Cooperation
Invasion
Post War
South Korea
Soviet
Shatter
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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Demand
Federal Government
School Districts
Districts
Finances
Local School
Transferred
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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Backup
Documents
Investigation
Papers
Committee
Congressional
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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Backing
Denying
Financed
Inequalities
Solution
Taxable
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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Connecticut
Fewer
Hampshire
Maryland
New Hampshire
Nine
Southern
States
Established
Churches
Colonies
Episcopal
Southern States
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There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.
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Income
Long
Population
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Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
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Thanksgiving
Funding
New Government
Indians
Measures
Memorials
Northwest
Ordinance
Peacetime
Prayers
Repeated
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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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Thanksgiving
Continental
Fasting
Worship
Official
Opened
Prayers
Voiced
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Patriot
Patriot Act
Resistance
Board
Domestic
Inept
Real Problem
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A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
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Agents
Department
Dozen
Fbi
July
Soviet
Suspects
According
Alleged
Named
Communists
Document
Official
Samuel
State Department
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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Financing
Garbage
Plausible
Streets
Connection
Proposals
Resulting
Roads
Taxpayer
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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Annie
Army
Code
Communist
Communist Party
Defense
Fbi
Innocent
Moss
Pentagon
Undercover
Victim
Agent
Clerk
Democrats
Identified
Lee
Mccarthy
Member
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans / Journalist
Accusation
Communist
Despite
Factual
Lists
Mccarthyism
Soviet
Subversion
Well Known
Agent
Alleged
Basis
Bogus
Charges
Existed
In The End
Myriad
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