[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone. — William F. Buckley, Jr Gratitude Copy Share Image
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. — William F. Buckley, Jr Identity Copy Share Image
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks. — William F. Buckley, Jr Entire life Copy Share Image
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love. — William F. Buckley, Jr Freedom Copy Share Image
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' — William F. Buckley, Jr Art history Copy Share Image
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you. — 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 Election Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is,… — William F. Buckley, Jr Behavior Copy Share Image
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest… — 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 Communication Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Art Copy Share Image
...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the… — William F. Buckley, Jr American politics 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 People Copy Share Image
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away.… — William F. Buckley, Jr Assertiveness Copy Share Image
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Atheism Copy Share Image
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent… — William F. Buckley, Jr Advice 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
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr Eden Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of… — William F. Buckley, Jr American politics Copy Share Image
Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified… — William F. Buckley, Jr America Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have… — William F. Buckley, Jr Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
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 Humanism 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 Boston Copy Share Image
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their… — William F. Buckley, Jr Business Copy Share Image
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A… — William F. Buckley, Jr Evil Copy Share Image
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd… — William F. Buckley, Jr America 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
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers. — William F. Buckley, Jr America Copy Share Image
The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they… — William F. Buckley, Jr Cybersecurity 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
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image