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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.


William F. Buckley, Jr.

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JEFF BUCKLEY Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.
ROBERT BUCKLEY All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one...
JEFF BUCKLEY I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
JEFF BUCKLEY I believe in the power of weakness.
PAT BUCKLEY I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
PAT BUCKLEY Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something t...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
PAT BUCKLEY Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their earl...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY We were going 1,000 miles an hour, and I don't want to start over again. It's part of my job to thin...
BILL BUCKLEY Maybe a little spit here and a little spit there.
BILL BUCKLEY What I realized almost immediately is I'm all over the place. I don't want to knock something down t...
BILL BUCKLEY I can't say enough about him. He's a good friend and an outstanding manager at his store.
BILL BUCKLEY The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way o...
BETTY BUCKLEY The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights...
BETTY BUCKLEY So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
BETTY BUCKLEY I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was th...
BETTY BUCKLEY Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a b...
BETTY BUCKLEY Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and shari...
BETTY BUCKLEY I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of w...
JEFF BUCKLEY You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to t...
JEFF BUCKLEY Cancer in the Family: Communicating With Your Children
BARBARA BUCKLEY Nevada has passed more and more laws to become the Delaware of the West, ... This type of situation ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY I would be honored to be speaker if I am fortunate enough to be re-elected and we are fortunate enou...
BARBARA BUCKLEY What assurance do we have that the gas companies would not raise their prices?
BARBARA BUCKLEY I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
KEITH BUCKLEY Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an as...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY