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….

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….

In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians giv….

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….

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to ….

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes..

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, c….

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

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself..

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 aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eli….

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to….

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education..

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much..

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light..

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

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are r….

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

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

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….

To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservati….