« All Politics Quotes · William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Page
Politics Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of…
- Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be…
- The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
- If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
- The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
- The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ...…
- Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
- The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle