They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.
William F. Buckley, Jr.Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
William F. Buckley, Jr.There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr.