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Russell Kirk est un théoricien politique, écrivain, historien, moraliste et critique américain.

Homme de lettres, il est connu pour son influence majeure sur le conservatisme américain du XXe siècle. Son œuvre principale, The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot façonna le mouvement conservateur américain d'après-guerre en parcourant le développement de la pensée conservatrice dans la tradition anglo-saxonne, en particulier les idées d'Edmund Burke. Cette œuvre est encore considérée de nos jours comme l'un des plus importants textes de la pensée conservatrice du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. octobre 1918 – 29. avril 1994
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Russell Kirk: Citations en anglais

“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”

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“Conservatives have no intention of compromising with socialists, but even such an alliance, ridiculous though it would be, is more conceivable than the coalition of conservatives and libertarians.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

“When heaven and earth have passed away, perhaps the conservative mind and the libertarian mind may be joined in synthesis, but not until then.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

“What else do conservatives and libertarians profess in common? The answer to that question is simple: nothing. Nor will they ever. To talk of forming a league or coalition between these two is like advocating a union of ice and fire.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

“The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”

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The Roots of American Order (1974)