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The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."
William Francis Buckley -
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William Francis Buckley
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.
William Francis Buckley -
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
William Francis Buckley -
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William Francis Buckley -
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
William Francis Buckley -
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 Francis Buckley -
We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.
William Francis Buckley
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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 Francis Buckley -
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
William Francis Buckley -
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.
William Francis Buckley -
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
William Francis Buckley -
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
William Francis Buckley -
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
William Francis Buckley
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William Francis Buckley -
They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.
William Francis Buckley -
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
William Francis Buckley -
In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.
William Francis Buckley -
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
William Francis Buckley -
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
William Francis Buckley
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William Francis Buckley -
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
William Francis Buckley -
Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.
William Francis Buckley -
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William Francis Buckley