Buckley vs. Vidal Quotes

“when both can’t be true. In 1946, in the days after World War II, presidential advisor Bernard Baruch said, “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” Variations have been uttered by U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and others. Today this seemingly indisputable truth no longer holds. Propaganda is indistinguishable from fact and we find ourselves living in the frightening pages of a George Orwell novel.”
― William F. Buckley, Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates

“To be perfectly bleak and to be perfectly blunt, I think we're headed for total disaster, this empire, with people like Mr. Buckley here beating the drum. And I think the instinct of the people, I used to think it was for peace. I think it now—I come back and see little American flags on the antennae of the cars—they're getting ready for war.”
― Gore Vidal, Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates