Heroes...

Yeah, I've got a few. Lost another one yesterday.

WFB...

Lot's of good stuff up over at NRO Online. Below are some favorite quotes over the years....

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."

"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."

"We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down."

"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. Because the faculty of Harvard, left to their own devices will vote for Utopia, and the search for Utopia in the 20th century has led us to the death camps, and the gulag."

"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' "

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. "

"It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! "

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. "

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. "

"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. "

"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. "

"Some of my instincts are reprehensible. "

"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."

"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar. "

"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. "

"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. "
You need not agree with all I say. I have been rejected before, and you have been wrong before. One need not reason as I reason, nor believe as I believe, but then it will be your to your devices as how you will gain entrance at the heavenly gates.