“Mr. Buckley, of course, was no mere host, but an intellect of the first order who preached undiluted conservatism. Author, publisher, commentator, he bucked the liberal order by revealing the emptiness of its utopian promises.” – The Heritage Foundation, February 28, 2018

“The opportunity to live our lives as we will; the security of impartial law, through which our grievances are answered and our hurts restored; the protection of our environment as a shared asset, which cannot be seized or destroyed at the whim of powerful interests; the open and enquiring culture that has shaped our schools and universities; the democratic procedures that enable us to elect our representatives and to pass our own laws–these and many other things are familiar to us and taken for granted. All are under threat. And conservatism is the rational response to that threat.” – How to be a Conservative, published September 11, 2014

“Real freedom, concrete freedom, the freedom that can actually be defined, claimed, and granted, was not the opposite of obedience but its other side. The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. Those ideas exhilarated me, since they made sense of what I had seen in 1968.” – The New Criterion, February 1, 2003

January 12, 1951 – “Prior to Rush, grassroots Americans were starved for a popular national voice delivering a politically conservative message, given the monolithic liberalism of America’s educational institutions, Hollywood and mainstream media.” – Fox News, January 12, 2023

“His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving ‘peace through strength’ abroad.” – Fox News, February 6, 2023