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

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 tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.

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, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.

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

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

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 be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

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