SL Buckley Quotes
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.
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.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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.
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
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.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
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.
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
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.
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
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.
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.
When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.