“Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.” TogetherForceMoralPrinciplesArmsCivilizationIntellectualSubtleThread Author:Russell Kirk
“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.” MenWorldStatesForceChurchLinesClassTownsChainsDiscipleLoneOne LineEnnuiStiflingGuilds Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.” IfsRealOrderForceProgramChaosDoctrineRevolutionaryCosmosSignificanceAppetiteFragileReformersVortexAdrift Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped.” StatesAmericaPoliticalBeliefForceInterestUnitedUnited StatesArgumentTraditionPropertyConservativeDefenseImpressionAriseConfusionFoundersExpansionConservatismAccumulationPrivate PropertyHamiltonCentralizationPolitical Arguments Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
