126 Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

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.

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.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.