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

- Russell Kirk

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

- Russell Kirk

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

- Russell Kirk

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 …

- Russell Kirk

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

- Russell Kirk

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

- Russell Kirk

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

- Russell Kirk

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 …

- Russell Kirk

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

- Russell Kirk