William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley Jr. Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
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.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
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.
How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration?
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.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
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.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
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.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing - for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
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.
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
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.
Following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.