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Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

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Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

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

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Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order

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

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Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, ...

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Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; ...

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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

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