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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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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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...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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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
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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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One doesn't read Jane Austen one re-reads Jane Austen.
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Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
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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.
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Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
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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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Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
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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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You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
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I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
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Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
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.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Conservatism is the politics of reality
William F. Buckley, Jr.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
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