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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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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but…
— Saint Augustine
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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…
— Ayn Rand
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
— Seneca the Younger
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True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the…
— Russell Kirk
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A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate…
— Philemon
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
— Mark Twain
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,…
— Socrates
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
— Benjamin Franklin
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