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Russell Kirk

“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.”

Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
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