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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 24
Died: 2008
Died: February 27
Journalist
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Politician
Television Presenter
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New York City
New York
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.
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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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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 icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries.
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Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
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...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.
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One doesn't read Jane Austen one re-reads Jane Austen.
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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Conservatism is the politics of reality
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Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.
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The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
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A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
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