
Madmonarchs biography http://www.xs4all.nl/~monarchs/madmonarchs/nadir/nadir_bio.htm
The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Madmonarchs biography http://www.xs4all.nl/~monarchs/madmonarchs/nadir/nadir_bio.htm
Remarks at the Annual Salute to Congress Dinner http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20481b.htm (4 February 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variant: Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
Context: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
2010s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
Ending words
The house on the hill (1949)
“The day war broke out, my Missus said to me – she looked at me and she said, "What good are you?"”
Home Guard
This appears to be a variant of a widely disseminated Republican joke with no published attribution of its authorship to Buckley.
Mark Hatfield, as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism (1968) by Nick Thimmesch, p. 65
They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months — and I did and we were.
Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now : Character Portraits from the "Golden Apple" (2001) by William O'Shaughnessy, p. 85
Buckley did say this on the Firing Line episode "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" According to the transcript here http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=22, he says "...if someone told me that if I voted for Goldwater, we would escalate the war, I did and we have."
Misattributed
Variant: They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do.
Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 2 (p. 22)
Kurland is actually quoting here from Ian Fleming’s novel Goldfinger
Antonio de Almeida — reported in Paul Hume (July 28, 1981) "Odyssey Of a Conductor", The Washington Post, p. C4.
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