Russell Kirk Quotes

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckle...

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did ...

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the a...

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit an...

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our...

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. ...

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of t...