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01Undated

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

02Undated

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

03Undated

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

04Undated

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

05Undated

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

06Undated

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

07Undated

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

08Undated

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

09Undated

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote

10Undated

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane Kirkpatrick / quote