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Ryszard Legutko
“All political projects that neglect human nature and disregard the lessons drawn from centuries of political experience have to compensate for their lack of realism by a disproportionately high degree of intervention in both the social fabric and in human minds.”
Ryszard Legutko, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols

“The truth is that no nation can be constantly prepared to undertake a full-scale war at any moment and still hope to maintain any of the other purposes in which people are interested and for which nations are founded.”
Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“No foreign policy can be justified except a policy devoted without reservation or diversion to the protection of liberty of the American people, with war only as the last resort and only to preserve that liberty.”
Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“To the extent we look to some distant government to tend to our character and needs, we lose the habits of face-to-face involvement, cooperation, and conflict in which we learn to respect ourselves and other people. We lose the essential, concrete communities in which we become something more than individuals: real persons participating in associations where we belong and have purpose.”
Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“All ideologies are characterized by abstract and universal claims that are suited to a narrow rationalism but ill-suited to human experience.”
Ted V. McAllister

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