William F. Buckley

Quotes by William F. Buckley

• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

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• A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.

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• History is but the polemics of the victor.

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