James J. Kilpatrick Quotes

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Conservatives believe that a civilized society demands orders and classes, that men are not inherently equal, that change and reform are not identical, that in a free society men are children of God and not wards of the state.

James J. Kilpatrick

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

James J. Kilpatrick

Self-reliance is a conservative principle. The work ethic is a conservative ethic. The free marketplace is vital to the conservative's economic philosophy.

James J. Kilpatrick

I was brought up a white boy in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930. I accepted segregation as a way of life. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our passions and profundities at age 28 thrust in our faces at 50.

James J. Kilpatrick

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

James J. Kilpatrick

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.

James J. Kilpatrick

James J. Kilpatrick

James J. Kilpatrick

Born: November 1, 1920

Died: August 15, 2010 (aged 89)

Bio: James Jackson Kilpatrick was an American newspaper journalist, columnist, author, writer and grammarian. During the 1950s and early 1960s he was editor of The Richmond News Leader in Richmond, Virginia and encouraged Massive Resistance to the U.S.

Known for:

The writer's art (1981)
The Southern case for school segregation (1962)
The ear is human (1985)
The foxes' union (1977)
The American South: Four Seasons of the Land (1980)

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