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“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

“For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.”
― William F. Buckley Jr., Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist

“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“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 peoples' freedom and security.”
― William F. Buckley, Jr.

“To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, or ... to give, or withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have received from the great wellsprings of human talent and concern that gave us Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, our parents, our friends. We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our prayers; and in our deeds.”
― William F. Buckley

“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.

“I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
― William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.