A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
Russell KirkIf the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Russell KirkThe libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
Russell KirkSome 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.
Russell Kirk