“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”

“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...”

“Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.”

“[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”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

“Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.”

“Our civic life is heavily markedindeed, pockedby debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debatein its original sense o...”

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sens...”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”