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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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Contentment is natural wealth.
— Socrates
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We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.
— Unknown Author
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the…
— Wendell Berry
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Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and…
— Wallace Carothers
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The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is…
— Russell Kirk
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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is:…
— Confucius
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The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on…
— Dan Miller
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California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
— Epicurus
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It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as…
— John F. Kennedy
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
— Socrates
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