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• Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

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  Christian, Religious, Squares

  William F. Buckley, Jr., Patricia Bozell (2014). “Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist”, p.183, Basic Books

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• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

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  Connections, Income, Use

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• I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

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  Mean, Men, Yesterday

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.42, Encounter Books

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• Not everything that is legal is reputable.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Law, Government

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• You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

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  Dabs, Paint, Accomplish

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books

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• The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

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  Race, White, Community

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• Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

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  People, Caves, Want

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• You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

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  Life Time, Knows, Separating

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• When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

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  Crush, Warrior, Reason

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• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

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  Lying, Marijuana, Law

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• The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

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  Art, Magic, Awful

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2016). “A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century”, p.129, Crown Forum

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• People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

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  Government, People, Wish

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

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  Self, States, Reliance

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• We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

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  Years, Would Be, Desert

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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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  Mind, Expansion, Bears

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• 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.

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  War, Liberty, Vietnam

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• A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

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  People, Lasts, Election

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

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  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

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  Reality, Conservative, Behalf

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

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  Government, Proportion, Can Do Something

  "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong". CNN, November 03, 2006.

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• The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."

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  Country, Religious, Atheist

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• I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

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  Thinking, Issues, Speed

  "On Writing Speedily", first published in The New York Times Book Review (1986); republished in "Miles Gone By : A Literary Autobiography" by William F. Buckley Jr., (p. 405), 2004.

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• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

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  Book, Phones, People

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• A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.

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  Country, Past, Europe

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