“In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered.”
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“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.”
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.”
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
― The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
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