Quote of the Week: A. V. Dicey, “Introduction to the study of the Law of The Constitution”
“Yet even if we confine our observations to the existing condition of Europe, we shall soon be convinced that the ‘Rule of Law’ even in…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Rudyard Kipling, “The Stranger”
The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk— I cannot feel his mind. I see…
Quote of the Week: Gildas Sapiens, “De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniæ”
“§1 Whatever my attempt shall be in this epistle, made more in tears than in denunciation, in poor style, I allow, but with good intent, let…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “The Servile Mind”
“A conception of society as a set of people relating to each other only as active and passive agents in the activity of excluding, disadvantaging,…
Quote of the Week: Allen Tate, “Essays of Four Decades”
“The kind of property that sustains the traditional society is not only not hostile to a unified moral code; it is positively the basis of…
Quote of the Week: Paul Elmer More, “Aristocracy and Justice”
“There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward. Sympathy, creating the desire for…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “Erasing America”
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…
Quote of the Week: John Michell, “Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist”
“As Ian Sommerville put it: every day the queue at the post office grown longer, until one day it is no longer a queue but…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Clark, “Civilisation”
“Historians usually consider the tenth century almost as dark and barbarous as the seventh. That is because they look at it from the point of…
Quote of the Week: Arthur Bryant, “Set in a Silver Sea”
“Rome had grown out of greatness of individual character. It became a community in which individual character counted for nothing compared with an abstraction which…