Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order

"Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens."

Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order

"Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law."

Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order