Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
William F. Buckley Jr.
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
funny humor reality acceptance
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
diversity political-philosophy democracy
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.
drugs civil-rights marijuana civil-liberties
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
people government
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
survival money people
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
buildup people
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
people truth
life
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
money
The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs.
thetimes time war education
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
government
National Review A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
thetimes time history
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time? I couldn't think of anyone.
rights speed thetimes time
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
history
Two Thousand Names. I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
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