The Red Tory Standard

@OLDUKIEDUDE I will personally write and post a full-length article on this within the next few months. - Mark (editor) x.com/Graham_Mark_E/…

@redtorystandard Over my head sorry lol, is there a layman’s version.

"If the sceptical detachment and rationalist absolutes of the Age of Reason formed no part of his experience, neither did the pious fervour and puritanical eccentricities of early nineteenth-century evangelism." - Donald Creighton on John A. Macdonald

"[The Fathers of Confederation], and especially the French-Canadian Fathers, had an equal, or even greater, horror of abstract principles. To the Loyalists, these recalled the American Revolution, to the French-Canadians the French." - Eugene Forsey

"To those who have labelled me as some kind of party maverick, and claimed I have been untrue to the great principles of the Conservative Party, I can only reply that they have forgotten the traditions of Disraeli and Shaftesbury in Britain and Macdonald in Canada." - Diefenbaker

Why read Canadian literature? To get our bearings, as it were. (Excerpt from Northrop Frye.)

"All pressure groups in society are anti-educational, no matter what they are pressing for." - Northrop Frye insisting on academic freedom in universities.

"In all theories of political justice it must be assumed that some limitation is placed on individual liberty." - George Grant, Technology and Justice x.com/redtorystandar…

"[A]s a smaller and poorer population we were obliged to protect our own manufacturers... against all the wealth, the skill, and acquired capital which had been invested in the United States..." - Sir John A. Macdonald (Tories once championed economic protectionism.)

"As justice is conceived as the external convenience of contract, it obviously has less and less to do with the good ordering of the inward life." - George Grant, English-Speaking Justice x.com/redtorystandar…

"[T]his country has grown and flourished under the protecting aegis of the British Crown." - Sir John A. Macdonald x.com/i/status/20516…

"No small country can depend for its existence on the loyalty of its capitalists." - George Grant, Lament for a Nation x.com/redtorystandar…

"[Macdonald] continued to prefer English to Yankee oratory; but he found that the Americans could... concoct a most acceptable kind of peach brandy." - Donald Creighton, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politican We sometimes provide light-hearted commentary. x.com/redtorystandar…

"It was the threat of American encroachment and the fear of American diplomatic or military aggression which had driven British North Americans to consider union as a measure of defence..." - Donald Creighton, The Story of Canada x.com/redtorystandar…

"The traditional conservative opposition to transcendent liberalism and to utopian socialism comes from the disconnect from reality of these two profound misunderstandings of human nature. Classical liberalism, the true and utterly vapid origin of today's neocon eccentricities, is the naive worship of both the individual and human nature. Stemming from a profound dislike of the authoritarianism of theocratic church-controlled and monarchal states, this approach exalted the view that, left on its own, human nature was a wonderful thing, incapable of cruelty or deceit and utterly confirming of the great potential of the individual. Just leave people alone, remove all structure, laws, controls and constraints, and everyone will just do fine. This is the core conceit of laissez-faire." - Hugh Segal, Beyond Greed x.com/redtorystandar…

"Government and religion are therefore the pillars, as it were, on which society rests, and by which it is upheld; remove these, and the fabric sinks into ruin." - Charles Inglis, Loyalist refugee and the first Bishop of Nova Scotia x.com/redtorystandar…

There is a certain loneliness that comes with a conservative skepticism of the West's dominant religion: the religion of Progress. "Like all great civilisations, the West is based on a great religion - the religion of progress. This is the belief that the conquest of human and non-human nature will give existence meaning. Western civilisation is now universal so that this religion is nearly everywhere dominant. To question the dominant world religion is indeed to invite an alienation far greater than the simply political." - George Grant, Technology and Empire x.com/redtorystandar…

"[W]e should regard this [French] heritage and recognize the permanence of French nationality and language as one of the corner-stones of this our British Dominion." - Stephen Leacock, Canada: The Foundations of its Future x.com/redtorystandar…

"The conservative idea of law has often been in the mouths of the capitalists, but seldom in their actions. Their economic policy has been the denial of order and form. It has been carried out by exalting the impulse that is the very symbol of the unlimited and the disordered." - George Grant, Philosophy in the Mass Age x.com/redtorystandar…