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Peter Viereck - Conservatism revisited (1949)

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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

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Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck

Born: August 5, 1916
Died: May 13, 2006 (aged 89)
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