The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Only portions of the globe still enslaved by the enemies of the people refrained from congratulating President Zingu and Premier Villiers-Kolama upon the astounding… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
“Manfredo -- Your Excellency -- how can you, even you, hope...?" "Life is a jest, and all things show it, my dear," I replied;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
“Today, as in the past, we ought to remind ourselves that the true natural law is not a mere congeries of appetites, and that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
“Men are put into this world, he [the enlightened conservative] realizes, to struggle, to suffer, to contend against the evil that is in their… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth . — Russell Kirk Copy Share
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far… — Russell Kirk Copy Share
