42 ordspråk av William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
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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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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.
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq. If he'd invented the Bill of Rights, it wouldn't get him out of his jam.
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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
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One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed....different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
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One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
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Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Garden of Eden.
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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