William F. Buckley Jr.

Quotes

• “The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with ...”
• “We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, i...”
• “I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in...”
• “I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the ...”
• “[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power t...”
• “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are ot...”
• “She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Ran...”
• “For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.”
• “Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.”