I’ve had occasion to do some reading over the Holidays. In the midst of that, I’ve revisited The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. If you do not own it, I suggest you acquire a copy. Why? Well, this on the matter of “rights.’
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The Eradication of Traditional American Values = The Eradication of America
Traditional American values are what make America exceptional! American values are under attack, and American values are losing because Americans have been bullied into silence!
Democrat leadership across the country have supported…
Notable Quote – Edmund Burke
“Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety and understanding is above their vanity and presumption — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen … Read more
Pithy Notable Quote: Burke On Tyranny
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” Edmund Burke
Notable Quote: How Modern Democrats View the Electorate?
They consider their subjects as the farmer does the hog he keeps to feast upon. He holds him fast in the sty, but allows him to wallow as much as he pleases in his beloved filth and gluttony. -Edmund Burke
Notable Quote: Yes, Edmund Burke is a Quote Machine…
An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite; and the only use he made of this power was, to plunge those who gave it into slavery.
Notable Quote: Does ‘Policy’ Make Matters Worse?
Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters I may the more freely inquire, from history and experience, how far policy has contributed in all times to alleviate those evils which Providence, that perhaps has designed us for a state of imperfection, has imposed; how far our physical skill has cured our constitutional … Read more
Notable Quote: Government As A Protector From Natural Evils
The ideas of religion and government are closely connected; and whilst we receive government as a thing necessary, or even useful to our well-being, we shall in spite of us draw in, as a necessary, though undesirable consequence, an artificial religion of some kind or other. To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves; … Read more
Notable Quote: Edmund Burke
“There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.” And… “There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of … Read more
Brett Kimberlin and my Kitchen Floor
I missed most of this weekend, and continue to, including the blog burst on Brett Kimberlin. I am removing and replacing vast swaths of ceramic tile (some broken some not) from my kitchen floor and replacing them with a lovely pattern, using some contrasting color…blah blah blah. (My wife watches a good deal of Home … Read more
Noteable Quote: Russell Kirk
All Values are not the same, nor all impulses, nor all men. A Natural gradation teaches men to hold some sentiments dear and others cheap. Leveling radicalism endeavors to put all emotions and sensations on the same level of mediocrity, and so to erase the moral imagination which sets men apart from beasts. -Russell Kirk … Read more
Notable Quote – Edmund Burke
One of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and its laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters; that they … Read more
The Liberal Darkness
On faith, or a lack of, in the enduring order of life. "Habit and Custom may be the wisdom of unlettered men, but they come from the sound ancient heart of humanity. Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also … Read more