Quote of the Week: John C. Calhoun, “A Disquisition on Government”
“If man had been differently constituted in either particular ;– if, instead of being social in his nature, he had been created without sympathy for…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Andrew Nelson Lytle, “I’ll Take My Stand”
“If an abundance of those things which a people considers the goods and the riches of the earth defines wealth, then it follows that that…
Quote of the Week: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism Revisited”
“Democracy is a political form, not a system of government. It has no social content, although the word is frequently misused in that sense. It…
Quote of the Week: Richard Weaver, “Ideas Have Consequences”
“We may feel satisfied to be damned for not producing great art or for not observing ceremony, but what if it is shown that addiction…
Quote of the Week: Francis Graham Wilson, “The Case for Conservatism”
“I do not think one needs to say that the defense of property means that we must defend a theoretical system of laissez-faire, that, in…
Quote of the Week: Cory Bernardi, “The Conservative Revolution”
“Those who challenge the reality that our Western worldview is infused with a behavioural code that stems from our Christian ethos would quickly point out…
Quote of the Week: Sophocles, “Ajax”
“[…] I have learned my lesson, To obey the gods – and not be disrespectful To the sons of Atreus; they are in command, And…
Quote of the Week: Joseph Sobran, “The National Review Years”
“The Progressive forces are always driven by the best motives: they are compassionate, courageous, conscientious, enlightened, future-oriented, peace-loving. These terms all have a left-wing odor…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Literature and the American College”
“The humanism of the Renaissance was a protest against the excesses of the ascetic. Now that science aspires to be all in all, somewhat after…
Quote of the Week: John Gray, “Black Mass”
“In America the Right has splintered between neo-conservative ideologues and paleo-conservative nativists. The common factor in these disparate currents is that conservatism has ceased to be a…