WFB Quote Scramble


Hope you enjoyed the magnet scramble challenge! Answers below.

“It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” National Review mission statement (1955)

“Industry is the enemy of melancholy.” WFB to his son, Christopher Buckley

Asked what he would do if he won his 1965 New York mayoral campaign, WFB quipped, “Demand a recount.” 

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.” WFB, quoted in National Review (2008)

“The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks, and extremists this side of the giggle house.” WFB in National Review (1967)

“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” WFB, WindFall: The End of an Affair (1993)

“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.” WFB, as quoted in Jonathon Green’s The Cynic’s Lexicon (1984)

“I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.” WFB, Rumbles Left and Right (1963)

“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths.” WFB, Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches (2008)