Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs”
“We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact […] Our country is not a thing of…
“We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact […] Our country is not a thing of…
“Each day the Bible was read, the Lord’s Prayer was said, and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. No one objected, mainly because the school…
“Then the army came along, this is 1951, I was drafted, well they were appalled that I would go and their investment would be on…
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory…
“Christopher Hitchens recalls that ‘1968 actually began in 1967 with the murder of Che. His death meant a lot to me, and countless like me,…
“Is it really possible for a man to go through life, all its tedium, annoyances, conflicts, humiliating compromises, frustrations, and disappointments without the necessary relief…
“The trouble about the Conservative Party is that nobody can still suppose there will be any resemblance between what they say before an election and…
“George Orwell, perhaps the finest stylist in English in the 20th century, argued in the late 1940s that our language was declining thanks to ‘political…
“As I departed, Soames mentioned that they were sorry that I would be out of the country and thus unable to attend the independence celebrations,…
“We are the changing times; we are the rising wind; the new generation. We are the answer to you, for we are your children. “You’ve…