56 quotes found
“All adventure is now reactionary.”
“Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.”
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
“A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise that debateis ridiculous....Many people shrink from arguments over facts because facts are tedious...”
“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.”
“I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these d...”
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley”
“We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values ...”
“I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduc...”
“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”
“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest ...”
“She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)”
“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.”
“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
“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.”
“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, 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.”
