Russell Kirk Quote

Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.


The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (ed. Regnery Publishing, 2001) - ISBN: 9780895261717


Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity ...

Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity ...

Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity ...

Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity ...