Remarks at the Anniversary Dinner

I am on the one hand most grateful to you for being here, and on the other most disconcerted that, after the most recent national review Fund Appeal, there should be so many of you left with seventeen dollars to spare for a dinner ticket. I know that some of you must feel that you have been taking national review to dinner practically every night of the year, and that therefore it is only just that at least once every now and then you should be permitted to dine at your own table. Still, you have welcomed me and my colleagues, for which we thank you deeply: even as we recognize that the true meaning of the occasion is that you welcome your own ideas, devotion, and faith, which it is our duty, and our privilege, to refract as best we can.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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Remarks at the Anniversary Dinner

I am on the one hand most grateful to you for being here, and on the other most disconcerted that, after the most recent national review Fund Appeal, there should be so many of you left with seventeen dollars to spare for a dinner ticket. I know that some of you must feel that you have been taking national review to dinner practically every night of the year, and that therefore it is only just that at least once every now and then you should be permitted to dine at your own table. Still, you have welcomed me and my colleagues, for which we thank you deeply: even as we recognize that the true meaning of the occasion is that you welcome your own ideas, devotion, and faith, which it is our duty, and our privilege, to refract as best we can.