William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes About Liberty
-
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 subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.
→ -
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
→ -
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
→ -
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
→ -
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 makes no sense.
→
Related Authors
-
Barry Goldwater Former United States Senator -
Whittaker Chambers Writer -
Erma Bombeck Column Author -
Ann Coulter Commentator -
Christopher Buckley Author -
L. Brent Bozell III Writer -
Ronald Reagan 40th U.S. President -
Noam Chomsky Linguist -
Jonah Goldberg Author -
James L. Buckley Former United States Senator -
James A. Baldwin Novelist -
-
Thomas Sowell Economist -
Christopher Hitchens Author -
Milton Friedman Economist -
Joseph Sobran Journalist -
James J. Kilpatrick Columnist -
Hunter S. Thompson Journalist -
Gore Vidal Writer -
Russell Kirk Historian