“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because the idiom of life is always changing” — William F. Buckley Jr 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 their judgment… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.” — William F. Buckley Jr 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, intelligence, and… — 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" 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 thrice. "Mr. Buckley has done Yale… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share
“[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” — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which at all times in history has been caused by direct government action or by government influence. As for aggravated unemployment, the individualist insists that it is exclusively the result of government intervention through inflation, wage rigidities, burdensome taxes,… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we deem it the central revelation of Western experience that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep. No temple has ever been so profaned that it cannot be purified; no man is ever truly lost; no nation is irrevocably dishonored. Khrushchev cannot take permanent advantage of our temporary disadvantage, for it… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share
“I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.” — William F. Buckley Jr 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
“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 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 a word… — William F. Buckley Jr 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/659/william-f-buckley-jr-2-34056_empty-shell_my-beloved-eudosia-a-member-of-buckley-s_2589657.jpg)