Summary: We believe in government limited to protecting life, liberty, and property; we believe in creating an atmosphere fit for a free market. We value freedom, excellency, the “organic moral order”, and business, and we will fight and protect them from numerous threats: Centralised bureaucracy, attempts at social engineering by liberal intellectuals, socialist unions and communism, world government, and a “cynical contempt for human freedom”, which is part of fashionable liberalism. Nowadays nearly everyone conforms to liberal orthodoxy. We dissent: Stop!

Source: William F. Buckley Jr (1955) Our Mission Statement. Published in National Review. November 19, 1955.

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