Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.


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

Russell Kirk Quotes

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town,...

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town,...

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town,...

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town,...