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Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches QUOTES

Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches QUOTES

1 " Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination? "

― William F. Buckley Jr. , Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

2 " Ladies and Gentlemen, we deem it the central revelation of Western experience that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep. No temple has ever been so profaned that it cannot be purified; no man is ever truly lost; no nation is irrevocably dishonored. Khrushchev cannot take permanent advantage of our temporary disadvantage, for it is the West he is fighting. And in the West there lie, however encysted, the ultimate resources, which are moral in nature. Khrushchev is not aware that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. Even out of the depths of despair, we take heart in the knowledge that it cannot matter how deep we fall, for there is always hope. In the end, we will bury him. "

― William F. Buckley Jr. , Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

3 " I quite understand a future without Marx, but it has always seemed to me that if our future is indeed to be without Jesus, the decision will be His, not ours; and that in any event, Jesus is not bound even by the deliberations of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "

― William F. Buckley Jr. , Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

4 " By temperament I am content with the doctrine that good fences make good neighbors; but good fences shouldn’t evolve into barbed-wire barricades, though much of this is happening: the atomistic pull of high-tech living, in a high-tech age. "

― William F. Buckley Jr. , Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

5 " It is all very well to take the revolutionists by the scruff of the neck and show them that revolutions, as Professor Toynbee preaches, historically have not brought about the ends explicitly desired, but something very like their opposite; but the success of such demonstrations presupposes a clinical curiosity on the part of the observer, and such is not the temper of those in America who are talking about revolution. "

― William F. Buckley Jr. , Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches