“National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.” — William F. Buckley Jr Candidate Copy Share Image
“Pentagon ought to win the Nobel Peace Prize every year, because the U.S. military is the world’s foremost guarantor of peace” — William F. Buckley Jr Nobel peace prize Copy Share Image
“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.” — William F. Buckley Jr Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life.” — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges… — William F. Buckley Jr Democracy Copy Share Image
“Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of… — William F. Buckley Jr Discrimination Copy Share Image
“I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas –… — William F. Buckley Jr Argument Copy Share Image
“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in… — William F. Buckley Jr Conservatism Copy Share Image
“We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight,… — William F. Buckley Jr Education Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we deem it the central revelation of Western experience that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of… — William F. Buckley Jr Gates of hell Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Big government Copy Share Image
“...my beloved Eudosia [a member of Buckley's household staff], who is Cuban, very large, quite old, and altogether superstitious, and speaks only… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist"… — William F. Buckley Jr Daily news Copy Share Image
![“[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” quote by William F. Buckley Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cd1/william-f-buckley-jr-2-34056_democracy_d-emocracy-can-itself-be-as-tyrannical-a_410323.jpg)
![“...my beloved Eudosia [a member of Buckley's household staff], who is Cuban, very large, quite old, and altogether superstitious, and speaks only a word or two of English (even though she has been with us for 19 years), is quite certain that the gentleman who raped the 16-year-old girl in New…” quote by William F. Buckley Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/659/william-f-buckley-jr-2-34056_empty-shell_my-beloved-eudosia-a-member-of-buckley-s_2589657.jpg)
![“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist" as though he had come up with a Dead Sea Scroll vouchsafing the key word to the understanding of God and Man at Yale. In a few sentences he used the term…” quote by William F. Buckley Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/709/william-f-buckley-jr-2-34056_daily-news_professor-greene-s-reaction-to-gamay-as_200893.jpg)