William F. Buckley Jr.

More from William F. Buckley Jr.

• I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

  • Clever Jabs

• We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,
  let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

  The Jeweler’s Eye, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1968) p. 68

  • Politics

• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.

  • Government

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