The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge. A Political Philosophy (2006)
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. A Political Philosophy (2006)
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. A Political Philosophy (2006)