Famous Russell Kirk Quotes

  • The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. – Russell Kirk

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

  • Ordinary human laws are the means — however imperfect — by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. – Russell Kirk

    Ordinary human laws are the means — however imperfect — by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.– Russell Kirk

  • To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future. – Russell Kirk

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

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

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