Russell Kirk Quotes
Top 28 wise famous quotes and sayings by Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.
In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history
Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.