Russell Kirk
Political theorist (1918 to 1994) whose The Conservative Mind (1953) traced an Anglo-American conservative tradition from Burke and set out its canons, helping found postwar American conservatism.
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Their wordsThe only true equality is moral equality; all other attempts at levelling lead to despair, if enforced by positive legislation.
↗The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery, 1953)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsBelief that a divine intent rules society as well as conscience, forging an eternal chain of right and duty which links great and obscure, living and dead.
↗The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery, 1953)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsPersuasion that property and freedom are inseparably connected, and that economic levelling is not economic progress.
↗The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery, 1953)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsRecognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
↗The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery, 1953)archive.org All 4 from this book