Quotes by : William F. Buckley Jr.

She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble.....

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

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence,....

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further....

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically....

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of....

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise that....

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