The American Idea

Individualism, Voluntary Association, and Market Exchange, grounded in Pluralism, Rule of Law, and a Virtue Tradition

“Truth withers when freedom dies, however righteous the authority that kills it; and free individualism uninformed by moral value rots at its core and soon brings about conditions that pave the way for surrender to tyranny.”

~Frank Meyer

“Society is . . . a partnership . . . between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

“A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman”

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

~Edmund Burke