Westbrook Pegler quotes
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“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
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“Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.”
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“Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.”
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“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”
-- Westbrook PeglerSource : "Rabble-rouser" by William F. Buckley, Jr., www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2004.
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“Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?”
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“Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.”
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“My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.”
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“We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over...”
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“I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)”
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“Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.”
-- Westbrook PeglerSource : Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
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