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William Buckley: A Voice against Liberalism and for Life
« on: July 22, 2018, 04:41:57 pm »
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William Buckley: A Voice against Liberalism and for Life
LifeSiteNews.com

By Michael Baggot

  February 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Wednesday February 27, 2008 William Buckley Jr. left this world after 82 years of life.  During his life it seemed that practically every person familiar with Buckley or his work, whether political friend or foe, had strong words of praise for the recently deceased hero of conservatism.

“For people of my generation, Bill Buckley was pretty much the first intelligent, witty, well-educated conservative one saw on television,” said William Kristol, editor of the influential conservative Weekly Standard, in 1999.  “He legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement and therefore as a political movement," added Kristol.

  Liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in words that delighted Buckley, called him the “scourge of liberalism.”


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