7 Quotes by William F. Buckley

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

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.