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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans ...

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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore the...

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A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

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I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

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I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I furth...

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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, o...

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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest di...

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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breat...

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For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discov...

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She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and n...

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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire facu...

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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

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William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Born: 1925-11-24

Died: 2008-02-27

William F. Buckley, Jr. (November 24 1925 - February 27 2008) was an American author, conservative journalist, who founded the conservative political magazine National Review in 1955 and hosted the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999.More