Russell Kirk's "Six Canons of Conservative Thought":

• "Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as conscience." 
• "Affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence, as opposed to the narrowing uniformity, egalitarianism, and utilitarian aims of most radical systems;"
• "Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes, as against the notion of a 'classless society'." 
• "Persuasion that freedom and property are closely linked: separate property from private possession, and the Leviathan becomes master of all." 
• "Faith in prescription and distrust of 'sophisters, calculators, and economists' who would reconstruct society upon abstract designs." 
• "Recognition that change may not be salutary reform: hasty innovation may be a devouring conflagration, rather than a torch of progress."