126 Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."