“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state....”
Russell Amos Kirk
American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, lecturer, author, and novelist.
(1918 - 1994)