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If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
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
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New York City
New York
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
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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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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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Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
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Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.
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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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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
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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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Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
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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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Industry is the enemy of melancholy
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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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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Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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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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I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
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All that is good is not embodied in the law and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws but it needs strong mores.
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I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
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