94 Quotes by William F. Buckley Jr.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

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.

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn’t consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.