William Frank Buckley Jr. Quotes

It is outrageous to live in a society whose laws tolerate sending young people to life in prison because they grew, or distributed, a dozen ounces of marijuana. I would hope that the good offices of...

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" - National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 - 12 February 1996.

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Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is...

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" - National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 - 12 February 1996.

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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...

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" - National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 - 12 February 1996.

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Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost...

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" - National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 - 12 February 1996.

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More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing. These fatalities include, perhaps most prominently, drug merchants who compete for...

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Address to the New York Bar Association (Summer 1995); published in "The War On Drugs Is Lost" - National Review Vol. 48, No. 2 - 12 February 1996.

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Listen you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Responding to Gore Vidal's language during debate over the 1968 Democratic National Committee riots on ABC News.

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Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" - Washington Post - 28 February 2008.

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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations - 2007 by John Cook.

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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....

William Frank Buckley Jr.

"Spare Thoughts on Saddam" - National Review Online - 2006.

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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

William Frank Buckley Jr.

Quoted in "Broken Government: Where the right went wrong," - CNN - 2006.

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