Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Age: 82 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 24
Died: 2008
Died: February 27
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Television Presenter
Writer
New York City
New York
William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley
Jr.
William Frank Buckley
Shakespeare
Forty
Percent
Words
Used
More quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Why should any country continue, forever, to be great?
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
