Category Archives: Quotations Freedom

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know …

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilization escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite. Russell Kirk
The Conservative Mind (1953)

Are you seriously suggesting we rely on the same government that confiscates …

Are you seriously suggesting we rely on the same government that confiscates 40% of your earnings to simultaneously subsidize tobacco farmers, subsidize cancer research, violate cigarette companies’ free speech rights, extort revenues from those companies’ cigarette sales, prohibit you from smoking those cigarettes on your own property, yet buy those same cigarettes for sale to juvenile prisoners in government facilities you also paid for? Are you kidding? Tom Isenberg
Tom Isenberg of Microsoft (although not speaking for them)