Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

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

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.