Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... force upon other men - and this whether those beliefs be false or true . It is clear why this is so if the beliefs are false ; it is more difficult to see why this is still so if they are true . Why cannot state power , if held by ...
... force upon other men - and this whether those beliefs be false or true . It is clear why this is so if the beliefs are false ; it is more difficult to see why this is still so if they are true . Why cannot state power , if held by ...
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... forces " rather than the people that count . So what if the " deep historical forces " at work in such diverse places as ... Force , the President told us at Notre Dame , does not work ; that is the lesson he extracted from Vietnam . It ...
... forces " rather than the people that count . So what if the " deep historical forces " at work in such diverse places as ... Force , the President told us at Notre Dame , does not work ; that is the lesson he extracted from Vietnam . It ...
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... forces in the world at every given moment , to calculate their rate of drift and general direction as a guide to action - in order to take advantage of the con- stantly changing relationships of force to promote a revolution which the ...
... forces in the world at every given moment , to calculate their rate of drift and general direction as a guide to action - in order to take advantage of the con- stantly changing relationships of force to promote a revolution which the ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
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