Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials it is thought to sound authoritative.

Not communicating saves energy it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.