Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lonelines.

— Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)

More quotes by Russell Kirk

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)

Prescription, Authority, and Ordered Freedom,” in What is Conservatism? (1964)

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)

The Roots of American Order (1974)

Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective (1989)

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Russell Kirk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.