Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Conservatives and Libertarians


In “Redeeming The Time,” Russell Kirk said that libertarians live by one simple principle, the notion of personal freedom as the whole end of the civil order, and even of human existence.

They carry the 19th century abstractions of John Stuart Mill on liberty to absurdity.

The only thing true conservatives share with libertarians is a detestation of collectivism, and they share nothing else.

There is no great gulf between libertarianism and libertinism.

The final emancipation for religion, convention, custom and order is annihilation.

Liberty and justice are established only after order is secured, without the state man's life work would be brutal and short.

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