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William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes

Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas? the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code? but because the idiom of life is always changing

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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