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

Russell Kirk
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  1. If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

  2. To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

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