Andrew Willard Jones

“A virtuous society is a royal society. It is ruled by kings, so to speak, at every level of scale: kings all the way down—or, in what amounts to the same thing, fathers all the way up.”

“As the father guides the son deeper into virtue through the son’s obedience, through his good inclinations, his particular instantiation of the virtues, so the prince serves as a father to the city itself.”

“We are talking a great deal about liberalism, but very little about the possibility that by remaining within liberal discourse, we are unwittingly reinforcing our own marginalization.”