The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
William F. Buckley Jr.To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, or ... to give, or withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have received from the great wellsprings of human talent and concern that gave us Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, our parents, our friends. We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our prayers; and in our deeds.
William F. Buckley Jr.Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
William F. Buckley Jr.The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley Jr.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.
William F. Buckley Jr.I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley Jr.The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
William F. Buckley Jr.There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley Jr.The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a genius, an uncannily resourceful manipulator of world history who shoved everything he knew, thought, and devised into a Ouija board from whose movements he decocted universal laws. He had his following, during the late phases of the Industrial Revolution. But he was discredited by historical experience longer ago than the Wizard of Oz: and still, great grown people sit around, declare themselves to be Marxists, and make excuses for Gulag and Afghanistan.
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