Buckley Jr., William F.

"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth."

"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."

"The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house."