Words matter. These are the best William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
All adventure is now reactionary.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
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.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
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.
