The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith..

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the i….

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a to….

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

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple ration….

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of t….

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't m….

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society..

The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debau….

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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

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

Nothing is more conservative than conservation.