Quote of the Week: Benjamin Disraeli
“I have no apprehension myself that, if you had manhood suffrage to-morrow, the honest, brave and good natured people of England would resort to pillage, incendiarism and massacre. Who…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Theodore Roosevelt, Address to the National Convention of Mothers
“No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Beauty”
“[E]verything I have said about the experience of beauty implies that it is rationally founded. It challenges us to find meaning in its object, to…
Quote of the Week: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
“This is the basis of the wisdom transmitted by what is known as ‘tradition’, which is another word that, in the swirl of our ‘anything goes’ post-modern…
Quote of the Week: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”
“It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Fleming, “The Morality of Everyday Life”
“Henceforth, any project of constructing a global empire would be seen as a second global rebellion against God. Although the punishment for Babel was cancelled…
Quote of the Week: Barry Goldwater, “The Conscience of a Conservative”
“A civil right is a right that is asserted and is therefore protected by some law. It may be asserted by the common law, or…
Quote of the Week: William Gladstone, “The State in its Relation with the Church”
“Wherever there is power in the universe, that power is the property of God, the king of that universe – his property of right, however…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Nevertheless, before discussing the issue of Church and State, we must look a little more closely at the motive of religion, if only because some…
Quote of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza, “What’s So Great About Christianity?”
“Consider the case of Western art. Have you been to the Sistine Chapel? Seen Michelangelo’s Pietà? Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper? Perhaps you are familiar…