William Buckley Quotes


15 William Buckley quotes:



"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."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Self Quotes
"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Practice Quotes
"Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Garden of Eden."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Morality Quotes
"The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Magic Quotes
"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."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Madness Quotes
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes
"Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq. If he'd invented the Bill of Rights, it wouldn't get him out of his jam."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Fortune Quotes
"Does baloney fear the grinder?"
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Fear Quotes
"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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"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar."
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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Scholars And Scholarship Quotes Boston Quotes
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Arrogance Quotes
"All adventure is now reactionary."
Author: Buckley Quotes Category: Adventure Quotes



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