Quote of the Week: Michael Oakeshott, “Rationalism in Politics”
“From all this the man of conservative temperament draws some appropriate conclusions. First, innovation entails certain loss and possible gain, therefore, the onus of proof,…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Sam Francis, “Shots Fired”
“The ‘Religious Right’ is merely the current incarnation of the on-going Middle American Revolution, a cultural and political movement that has underlain the political efforts…
Quote of the Week: B. A. Santamaria “The Price of Freedom”
“There is an added irony. Since 1946 the European powers have relinquished control over a score of newly independent nations. Yet they are still largely…
Quote of the Week: Jack Lang, “Why I Fight”
“Before preparing its next election denunciation of the ‘Red Menace,’ the Sane Democracy League and similar organisations should carefully study the ‘most favored-nation’ Agreement signed…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Conservative Mind”
“I think that there are six canons of conservative thought – Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Conservatism has different versions because its advocates disagree about what political arrangements would make a society good. There is, however, no disagreement about having to…
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The aim of politics, as of all else, is the good life. But the good life is something which cannot be comprehended in some phrase or formula about any…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“But, as the great historian Lord Acton said, ‘Ideas have a radiation and a development, an ancestry and posterity of their own, in which men…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”
“I am aware that I belong to a kind, and that this kind has a place in nature. I am also aware that I depend…
Quote of the Week: Robert Bork, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”
“The judicial adoption of the tenets of modern liberalism has produced a crisis of legitimacy. Contrary to the plan of the American government, the Supreme…