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Selected
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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...
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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
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