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William F. Buckley, Jr.

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded National Review magazine in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement; hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line (1966–1999), where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary; and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column along with numerous spy novels.

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All adventure is now reactionary.

Adventure, Funny Travel, Reactionary, Travel

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Community, Extremists, Giggle, House, Politics

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Aberrant, Communism, Leadership, Political, Wrong

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

Atheism, Important, Individualism, Struggle

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

Advice, Caviar, Entertain, Guest, Munificently, Order

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

Liberty, Told, Vietnam, Voted, War

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Bridges, Brooklyn Bridge, Build, Buy, People, Scientists

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

Inverse, Relationship, Reliance, Self, State, States

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Individual, Socialize, Spirit, Surplus

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

1995, Law, Marijuana, People, Question

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Arrogance, King, Kings, Rule, Sign

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Athwart, History, Political, Politics, Yelling

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?

Continue, Country, Forever, Should

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

Names, Real, Religious, Seen, Unconstitutional

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

Can Do Something, Except, Government, Proportion

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.

Embodied, Government, Law, Mores, Needs, Strong

. . . to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

Cases, Kgb, Lady, Men, Practice

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

Government, Political, Priests, Quality, States

What yells out at the US public. . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Hypocrisy, Names, People, Speech, Yells

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.

Conservative, Gave, Impression, Order, Surrounded

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