William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

William Francis Buckley

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• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

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• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

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• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

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• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

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• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

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• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

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• I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

  

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• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Done
  • Madness