Letters to the Editor
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Truly a great man
“You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.” - William F. Buckley Jr
As someone who is deeply influenced by WFB and his writings I'm overcome with grief and sadness over his demise. If there is one man who always stood by his convictions without wavering, was able to tell right from wrong without any ambiguity, prodding common sense above everything else, he will be remembered as WFB.
Here is a man who was never bound to ultra conservative orthodoxy and fearlessly questioned the actions of of even avowed conservatives like Eisenhower and Bush. He is one of the few conservatives who had the certitude in acknowledging that Iraq was a failure and George W. Bush will not go fairly in history even if he invented the bill of rights.
Thanks Bill for influencing my life in a very positive way. I like to close this with another quote by WFB.
"Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Garden of Eden.” - WFB Jr.