March 13, 2025

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave things as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.