William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

It costs you something to do good!

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Saving a life overrides territories.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.