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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.

-- William F. Buckley

It is an insult directed at the elite founded on the ridiculousness of the idea of the average person governing the country.  Buckley’s quote continues “Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or kno…

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