“The struggle for survival must not be led, on behalf of the American society, by some doubt-ridden egghead exquisitely poised between Yea and Nay. The world will go—and perhaps rightly—to those who want it most. If it is to go to the defenders of freedom, they must want that freedom not merely in order to doubt, but to believe.”
Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement
Keywords: identity,governance,national-security
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