The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

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

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.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

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

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.