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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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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed…
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and…
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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of…
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False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
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And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate…
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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,…
— Russell Kirk
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By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions;…
— Melissa Marr
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The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the…
— William E. Simon
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Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.
— John McCain
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