11+ William F Buckley Quotes On Socialism. God and man at yale by william f. The public life of our. These enemies include communists, but also socialists, liberals, atheists, and agnostics. Superiority of capitalism to socialism, of republicanism to centralism, of champagne to ditchwater — of anything to anything. Faculty should owe their positions not to academic freedom, but to alumni. Buckley did concede that there should be freedom in scientific research, . He was fond of the john maynard keynes quote that madmen in authority, . I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the harvard university faculty · the trouble with socialism is socialism; . This article investigates to what extent william f. William "bill" frank buckley jr was an american public intellectual, conservative author, and commentator.