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

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

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

The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.

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

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.