33 Thought-Provoking William F. Buckley, Jr Quotes
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
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 peoples' freedom and security.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
![[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/william-f-buckley-jr--57281.jpg)
[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom." -William F Buckley
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.
Liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s compulsory.
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.
I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.
Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment have earned universal recognition.
Pentagon ought to win the Nobel Peace Prize every year, because the U.S. military is the world’s foremost guarantor of peace
The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life.
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
