Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“When a tendency has gone to extremes, it is most evident that something must be done to oppose it. Opposing one aspect of it may…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Jesse Helms, “The Ramparts We Watched”
“So, in a very real sense, the character of government is largely an inverse reflection of the character of the people. The weaker the people,…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “Freedom & Reality”
“There could be no greater misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand of legislation as they call it ‘against discrimination’,…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “Conservative Realism”
“This drive to manage society is in our time so pervasive that it has spread beyond the area of political debate and is now enthusiastically…
Quote of the Week: Philippe Vardun, “Generation Identity” (Forward)
“They have defiled our flags, erased our frontiers, twisted the very names of things. With them, the homeland is no longer the land of one’s…
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “The Tyranny of Liberalism”
“The technocratic society they prefer promotes liberal understandings. Market, bureaucratic and industrial forms of organization abolish durable ties and treat everything as interchangeable. The electronic…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll in Bristol”
“Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Moral traditions, then, are enabling rather than productive; defensive rather than venturesome regulative rather than goal-directed. A moral tradition is working well if no one…
Quote of the Week: Michael Whelan, “Without God All Things Are Lawful”
“There is, if you like, an inescapable logic implicit here. It goes something like this: ♦ when God (the transcendent, the ultimate, the divine dimension)…
Quote of the Week: Carl Schmitt, “The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy”
“Thus democracy appeared to have the self-evidence of an irresistible advancing and expanding force. So long as it was essentially a polemical concept (that is, the negation…