Tom Willoughby

“In the first place, we have the powerful impulses of man’s sexual nature, which, especially in adult males, are sufficient to establish passing sexual relations with women and men, adults and children, strangers and close family members, beasts and physical objects. If permitted to engage in sexual contact according to the impulses of their untamed sexual nature, human males (and some females) would pour their energies into a variety of ephemeral sexual relations, with pregnancy, childbirth, and the raising of children as an incidental byproduct arising from some of them.”
― Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery

“Some people ask me what it’s like to be forgiven, to feel grace. It’s like walking on a long stretch of beach with nothing in sight but sky and waves and sand. With the sun piercing its brightness, the water tickling my toes, the roaring of the sea singing omniscience and power and yet, a deep peace, the waters changing from sandy brown to light green to a heavy blue, the waves cresting with the white peaks and then rushing to find my toes.”
― Elizabeth Musser, When I Close My Eyes

“What threatens to bring freedom to an end is that we have forgotten the end of freedom, in the other sense—its aim or purpose.”
― Robert Sirico, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

“It is a premise of Enlightenment liberalism that the only legitimate purpose of government is to enable individuals to make use of the freedom that is theirs by nature.”
― Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery