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So mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly. — Russell Kirk

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

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

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology. — Russell Kirk

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future. — Russell Kirk

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed. — Russell Kirk

In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history — Russell Kirk

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

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement. — Alfred Rosenberg

When she smiles at you, you will feel like the whole world in yours. If you really love her; else her smile wouldn't matter. — Rahul Rawat

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

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

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes. — Russell Kirk

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

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

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

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much. — Russell Kirk

There's beauty all around us if only we stop and search for it. — Maxwell Grantly

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

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. — Russell Kirk

Selfish Apologies Aren't Apologies at All — Miles Anthony Smith

The Muslims who kill are like the Christians and Jews who kill. They are not really of any faith. — Kirk Russell

Nothing is more conservative than conservation — Russell Kirk

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. — Russell Kirk

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property. — Russell Kirk

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists — Russell Kirk

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed! — Bertolt Brecht

Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith. — Russell Kirk

If there were no God the Father, there could be no brotherhood of man. — Russell Kirk

Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man. — Russell Kirk

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. — Russell Kirk

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. — Russell Kirk

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education. — Russell Kirk