I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a societ… - William F. Buckley Jr.

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.

I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty.

the genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy” — but

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.