The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of myst….

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly..

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the ….

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to ….

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also gen….

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consu….

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty..

The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politic….

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle..

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let ….

The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding….

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility..

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell..

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties..

Nothing is more conservative than conservation.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth ..

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which in….

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed..

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

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfec….