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“ The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest. ”

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

~ Russell Kirk

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

~ Russell Kirk

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 develop into full human beings.

~ Russell Kirk

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.

~ Russell Kirk