William Francis Buckley Quotes
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
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Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
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I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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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.
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
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The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
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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.
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I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
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Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
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Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
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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.
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
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Boredom is the deadliest poison.
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Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
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Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
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We love your adherence to democratic principles.
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Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
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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.