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
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.
If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
Conservatism is the politics of reality
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
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.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.