The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — 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
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — 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 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
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in… — 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
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
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
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. — 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
