It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. — William F. Buckley, Jr Arrogance 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
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy. — William F. Buckley, Jr Clubs Copy Share Image
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. — 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
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 Book Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles. — William F. Buckley, Jr Business 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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of… — William F. Buckley, Jr Catholic Copy Share Image
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word… — 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… — William F. Buckley, Jr Beer Copy Share Image
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are… — William F. Buckley, Jr Europe Copy Share Image
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — 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
Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar,… — William F. Buckley, Jr Advice Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Ancestor Copy Share Image
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Boston 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
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not… — William F. Buckley, Jr Beautiful Copy Share Image
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a… — William F. Buckley, Jr American politics Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here… — William F. Buckley, Jr Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
