William Buckley

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“[National Review] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”
— "Our Mission Statement" National Review (November 19, 1955).
“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.”
— National Review (January 16, 1962).
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.”
— As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 34.
“I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.”
— Let Us Talk of Many Things : The Collected Speeches (2000) ISBN-13: 978-0761525516
“Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.”
— As quoted in "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong," CNN (November 3, 2006).
“Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.”
— As quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" The Washington Post (February 28, 2008).

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