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Famous Russell Kirk Quotes
Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)
“The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”
The Roots of American Order (1974)
Russell Kirk Quotes
Russell Amos Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism. His 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. Kirk was considered the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism.
He was also an accomplished author of Gothic and ghost story fiction.
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✵ 19. October 1918 – 29. April 1994
