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

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

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.

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

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 what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

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

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