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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…
• I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
• Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
• Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
• We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
• Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
• Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
• The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
• We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
• Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
• A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
• 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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