On losing but maintaining one’s principles

On losing but maintaining one’s principles April 20, 2016

 

Dr. Russell Kirk, interesting but quirky
Russell Kirk, one of the principal founders of the twentieth-century American conservative intellectual movement, in 1962  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

“I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.”

Russell Kirk

 

 


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