“Conservatives have no intention of compromising with socialists, but even such an alliance, ridiculous though it would be, is more conceivable than the coalition of conservatives and libertarians.”

—  Russell Kirk

Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

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American political theorist and writer 1918–1994

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