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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
But is God a Yale man?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
— Edwin Newman
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Conservatism is the politics of reality
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Not everything that is legal is reputable.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing - for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
All adventure is now reactionary.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
— Christopher Buckley
Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
— Dick Cavett
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
— William F. Buckley Jr.