User:BuckleysRule

Where art thou oh saviors of the right? Where art thou virtues shining through? Your polysyllabic love of all things just and true? Mere recalcitrant children, craving your wisdom and your guidance as though milk, long to succor upon the ideas of justice, fairness, nay revenge. Buckley’s Rule"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."William F. Buckley Jr."“Do you favor mandated free tuition?” I answered: “Most positively not.” The crowd unanimously and lustily booed me. “Do you realize,” I persisted, “that you are asking men and women who are, many of them poorer than you, and poorer than your parents; many of whom earn less money than you yourselves will be earning in the course of a few years, to make sacrifices in your behalf?” Boo! “If you don’t believe me,” I said, “go to your economics teachers and ask them.” Boo! “All right,” I said, “don’t go to your economics teachers, and don’t discover the economic realities—you’ll find it much easier on the conscience not to know who is sustaining the hardship for your free education.” Applause!—as a matter of fact. On"William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor