
'Oakeshott as a Liberal' (p.80)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)
About the Industrial Charter (Conservative Political Centre, 1947), pp. 6-7.
'Oakeshott as a Liberal' (p.80)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)
“President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.”
Explaining her and her husband's wealth, as quoted in Today (April 1998).
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Misattributed
Source: Concord Days
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
Misattributed
“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”
Source: Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964), p. 9
Speech to the "Take Back America" Conference (10 June 2003) http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wjs/BillMoyersSpeech.htm; "Degenerate and unlovely age" is a quotation from Charles Eliot Norton
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 2, Simplicity, p. 7.
“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”
Chicago Defender (28 November 1962).
Attributed
Variant: It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
“I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.”
The Daily Herald (15 October 1928)
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Interview by Adam Jones, 1990
Context: The political policies that are called conservative these days would appall any genuine conservative, if there were one around to be appalled. For example, the central policy of the Reagan Administration - which was supposed to be conservative - was to build up a powerful state. The state grew in power more under Reagan than in any peacetime period, even if you just measure it by state expenditures. The state intervention in the economy vastly increased. That's what the Pentagon system is, in fact; it's the creation of a state-guaranteed market and subsidy system for high-technology production. There was a commitment under the Reagan Administration to protect this more powerful state from the public, which is regarded as the domestic enemy. Take the resort to clandestine operations in foreign policy: that means the creation of a powerful central state immune from public inspection. Or take the increased efforts at censorship and other forms of control. All of these are called "conservatism," but they're the very opposite of conservatism. Whatever the term means, it involves a concern for Enlightenment values of individual rights and freedoms against powerful external authorities such as the state, [or] a dominant Church, and so on. That kind of conservatism no one even remembers anymore.