M. Stanton Evans Quotes

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.

I didn’t agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: “This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median.” Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

I call it the ‘House of Reprehensibles.’ We don’t have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I’m much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

Once our people get themselves
into a position to make policy,
they cease being our people.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation – the backup to everything it does.

The latter 1940s and early ’50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

When ‘our people’ get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being ‘our people.’