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Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.

Peter Viereck

I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.

Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck

Born: August 5, 1916

Died: May 13, 2006 (aged 89)

Bio: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck was an American poet, political thinker, and long-time professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.

Known for:

Conservatism revisited (1949)
Metapolitics (1941)
Terror and decorum (1948)
Shame and glory of the intellectuals (1953)
Conservative Thinkers (1956)

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