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

— Russell Kirk The Roots of American Order (1974)

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

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)

If a man acknowledges no authority, he sets himself up as Cain, and before long he is struck down by nemesis, which follows upon hubris.

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

True conservatism rises at the antipodes from individualism. Individualism is social atomism; conservatism is community of spirit.

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Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest nations.

Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective (1989)

When heaven and earth have passed away, perhaps the conservative mind and the libertarian mind may be joined in synthesis, but not until then.

Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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