Wine Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr

9 Wine quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr

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Buckley’s prose was always sharp and measured; his limited wine lines carry that same precision. Nine short statements give a glimpse of his cultured, sometimes wry view of the glass.

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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a…

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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to…

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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

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Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd…

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Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to…

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Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more…

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Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved…

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The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help…

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Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to…

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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

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The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

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What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free…

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Industry is the enemy of melancholy

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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

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We love your adherence to democratic principles.

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Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

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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…

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