Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.

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.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

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 world was simply too cruel

Wait until you meet my family. At Thanksgiving, we kill everything we can find, put it into a pot, and call it 'holiday gumbo'.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.