Joining a radical movement ...

Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.
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 Irving Kristol

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As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.
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 Irving Kristol
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
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 Irving Kristol
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
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 Irving Kristol
If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.
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 Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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 Irving Kristol