I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
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… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign, — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share
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