Selected Quotes

Liberalism is dauntingly powerful. But the one force it does not have on its side is truth. And that finally, is its one invincible enemy, and our one unshakable friend.
   —Fr. Ronald K. Tacelli, S.J.

All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
   —Enoch Powell

[E]recting walls that separate "us" from "them" is a necessary correlate of morality since it defines the scope within which sympathy, fairness, and duty operate... The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.
   —James Q. Wilson

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
   —Theodore Roosevelt

There are limits to representative government. ...Although anything and anywhere can be represented, everything and everywhere cannot. A world state is implausible because states need something to contrast themselves with.
   —David Runciman

Equality, like arsenic, has contradictory effects. In moderation a tonic, it becomes poisonous when indulged to excess. Equality is the basis of our law, and saturates our language and our manners to a degree far beyond any other civilisation. But to 'equalise' the material things people enjoy must involve severing all connection between human conduct on the one hand and material things on the other.... Only the dead weight of a massively despotic power could sustain such equality.... The notorious problem of...egalitarian societies is that large numbers of their inhabitants want to bolt.
   —Kenneth Minogue