[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone. William F. Buckley, Jr. More Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr. More Quotes From William F. Buckley, Jr. They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm. William F. Buckley, Jr. individual-differencesmenbelieve Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere. William F. Buckley, Jr. rightsmenschool I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. William F. Buckley, Jr. humorouspracticebelieve ...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last. William F. Buckley, Jr. partybrokennew-york It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! William F. Buckley, Jr. targetbombsrooms Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. William F. Buckley, Jr. kneesjerksaint All adventure is now reactionary. William F. Buckley, Jr. funny-traveladventuretravel If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going! William F. Buckley, Jr. ifsheaven The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense. William F. Buckley, Jr. jeansmarijuanaweed They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity. William F. Buckley, Jr. landcollegeopportunity Boredom is the deadliest poison. William F. Buckley, Jr. boredomblessinglife Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes. William F. Buckley, Jr. stickssmokingamerica Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment. William F. Buckley, Jr. jaildrugspace 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. William F. Buckley, Jr. qualitypoliticalgovernment If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign. William F. Buckley, Jr. ministersprimewould-be It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance. William F. Buckley, Jr. sadismropepain Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. William F. Buckley, Jr. brooklyn-bridgebridgespeople Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals. William F. Buckley, Jr. tattooedcommonadvice Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern. William F. Buckley, Jr. modesteyedarkness I had much more fun criticizing than praising. William F. Buckley, Jr. criticizepraisefun
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