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Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
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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New York City
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Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.
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The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
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Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
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Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
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France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
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Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
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Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
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One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
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Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
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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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Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Not everything that is legal is reputable.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
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