The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of … - William F. Buckley, Jr.

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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

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In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think. . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

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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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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

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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.

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