Conservative Mind

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich Hayek

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Friedrich Hayek

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Carl Sandburg

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

G. K. Chesterton

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

J. R. R. Tolkien