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

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

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.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.