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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.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Why does baloney avoid the grinder?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness ...
— 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.
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[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
— 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
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
— William F. Buckley Jr.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration?
— 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.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
for December 19 and for a day or two bracketing the
— William F. Buckley Jr.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
— William F. Buckley Jr.
There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence."*
— William F. Buckley Jr.
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
All adventure is now reactionary.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
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She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
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.
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
— 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.
Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?
— 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.
Conservatism is the politics of reality
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley Jr.
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
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He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Liberals don't care what you do so long as it's compulsory.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.
— Christopher Buckley
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
— William F. Buckley Jr.
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
