“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.”

— Woodward Report

“To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.”

— Woodward Report

“We take a chance, as the First Amendment takes a chance, when we commit ourselves to the idea that the results of free expression are to the general benefit in the long run, however unpleasant they may appear at the time.”

— Woodward Report

“We value freedom of expression precisely because it provides a forum for the new, the provocative, the disturbing, and the unorthodox.”

— Woodward Report

“I believe the university lives or dies by the existence of free inquiry on campus. As such, the Buckley Program’s emphasis on fostering viewpoint diversity is the most important thing the Buckley Program could accomplish.”

— Yale Student ’24

“Liberal views are now not only the norm but the expected norm, and any deviation from it (except toward the authoritarian left) is not permitted. Being a centrist myself I think Buckley’s mere existence helps push back against this culture…”

— Yale Student ’23