Emmett Tyrrell Quotes

• Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Family, Husband, Wife

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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

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  Average, Kansas, Rose

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

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  Believe, Compassion, Lasts

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• The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

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  Party, Political, Today

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• Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

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  Travel, Struggle, Home

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• Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

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  Media, Names, Feelings

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• [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

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  Politics, Administration, Would Be

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• One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

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  Prove

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• Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

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  Peace, War, Sound

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• For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.

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  People, Sentimental, Program

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