Počnite osvjetljavanjem kutka u kojem se nalazite - poboljšavanjem jedne ljudske jedinke, sebe, i pomaganjem svojem bližnjemu. Ne morate biti bogati … - Russell Kirk

A pluralistic society even in its beginnings, America could agree on no national establishment of religion; the Greeks would have been astounded that such a nation-state, unconsecrated to the gods, could endure for a decade.

Yet in another sense, repeatedly pointed out by Alexis de Tocqueville, America was held together by a religious bond stronger than any the Greeks or the Romans had known: by a Christian faith that worked upon individual and family, rather than through a state cult. The failure of the Greeks to find an enduring popular religious sanction for the order of their civilization had been a main cause of the collapse of the world of the polis. The power of Christian teaching over private conscience made possible the American democratic society, vastly greater in extent and population than Old Greece.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

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