William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr.was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded National Review magazine in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement; hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line, where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary; and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column along with numerous spy novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 November 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.
He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt...
Why does baloney avoid the grinder?