94 Quotes by William F. Buckley Jr.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’

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.

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.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

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.

Socialize the individual’s surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness...

The police can’t use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

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.