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.

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.

You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

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

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

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

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

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.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.