If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
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About Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was a 20th-century American political theorist and writer. Russell Amos Kirk was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, lecturer, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored The Conservative Mind, which traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition and Edmund Burke. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power