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

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

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

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

The 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.

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

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