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
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
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
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 Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr 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 Copy Share Image
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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