Edmund Burke warned that the state seeking to re-order society tends to destroy the natural associations that alone make people decent citizens.
Author: Bruce P. Frohnen (Bruce P. Frohnen)
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Burke on our Crisis of Character
Abandoning our tradition-based constitutional republic, whether for a mythical medieval shire, an idyll of Lockean abstractions, or even a Church militant, is neither necessary nor prudent.
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The Principled Fight
Those on the right would do well to look to Edmund Burke as a common example in discerning the principles at stake in our present struggle, as well as the character and conduct needed to win.