Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a…

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine…

— Russell Kirk

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

— Abraham Lincoln

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual…

— Russell Kirk

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

“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

“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

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

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

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and…

— Evgeny Morozov

Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on.…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in…

— Charles Hugh Smith

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer