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William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes

William F. Buckley, Jr. quotes

American Journalist November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008

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To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, or ... to give, or withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have received from the great wellsprings of human talent and concern that gave us Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, our parents, our friends. We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly,... William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "We love your adherence to democratic principles."
We love your adherence to democratic principles. William F. Buckley, Jr.
Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas? the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code? but because the idiom of life is always changing William F. Buckley, Jr.
The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemtlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life. William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the..."
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's..."
How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration? William F. Buckley, Jr.
my beloved Eudosia [a member of Buckley's household staff], who is Cuban, very large, quite old, and altogether superstitious, and speaks only a word or two of English (even though she has been with us for 19 years), is quite certain that the gentleman who raped the 16-year-old girl in New Caanan three years ago and escaped has successfully eluded the police only because of his resourceful determination to ravage Eudosia before he dies. Accordingly she demanded, and I gave her, a shotgun,... William F. Buckley, Jr.
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands. William F. Buckley, Jr.
They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize... William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive..."
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. William F. Buckley, Jr.
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity). William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve..."
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state..."
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. William F. Buckley, Jr.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was..."
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop. William F. Buckley, Jr.

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