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Concord: The Conservative Ideal

“Concord” is a word that can be used to denote a harmonious arrangement of things, and describes well that which conservatives throughout history have sought to defend, restore, or foster: human flourishing in accord with the enduring moral order and authoritative social orders.

Champions of Concord: Conservative Heroes

Here is a partial list of those who have championed the ideal of Concord in diverse times and circumstances. They could be called conservative heroes. Some built for the Ages, others staved off hungry Chaos, and yet others were swept away by Revolution.

Only the saints on this list should be considered holy: heroes are all too frequently sinners as well, and even failures may be thought magnificent.

Click on the links for articles and resources from Concord Live concerning these great conservatives!

• Solomon [Kingdom of Israel] (c.1000 BC – c. 928 BC)
• Confucius [China] (551 BC – 479 BC)
• Socrates [Athens] (c. 470 BC – 399 BC)
• Plato [Athens] (428 or 427 BC – 348 or 347 BC)
• Aristotle [Athens] (384 BC – 322 BC)
• Marcus Tullius Cicero [Roman Republic] (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC)
• Marcus Aurelius [Roman Empire] (April 26, 121 AD – March 17, 180 AD)
• Constantine the Great [Roman Empire] (February 27, c. 280 AD – May 22, 337 AD)
• St. Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 AD – August 28, 430 AD)
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius [Western Roman Empire] (480 AD – 524 or 525 AD)
• St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 AD – c. 547 AD)
• Justinian I [Eastern Roman Empire] (482 or 483 AD –13 or 14 November 565 AD)
• St. Pope Gregory the Great (c. 540 AD – March 12, 604 AD)
• Charles Martel [France] (August 23, 686 AD – October 22, 741 AD)
• Don Pelayo de Asturias [Spain] (d. 737 AD)
• Charlemagne [Holy Roman Empire] (742 or 747 AD – January 28, 814 AD)
• King Alfred the Great [England] (c. 849 AD – October 26, 899 AD)
• St. Stephen of Hungary (c. 975 AD – August 15, 1038 AD)
• Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador [Spain] (c. 1044 AD – July 10, 1099 AD)
• Godfrey of Bouillon [Kingdom of Jerusalem] (c. 1060 AD – July 18, 1100 AD)
• St. Thomas Becket [England] (c. 1118 AD – December 29, 1170 AD)
• St. King Louis IX [France] (April 25, 1215 AD – August 25, 1270 AD)
• St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 AD – March 7, 1274 AD)
• Dante Alighieri [Florence] (May 14 or June 13, 1265 AD – September 13 or 14, 1321 AD)
• St. Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 AD – April 29, 1380 AD)
• Constantine XI Palaelogus [Eastern Roman Empire] (February 8, 1405 AD – May 29, 1453 AD)
• St. Joan of Arc [France] (1412 AD – May 30, 1431 AD)
• Isabel the Catholic [Spain] (April 22, 1451 AD – November 26, 1504 AD)
• Ferdinand the Catholic [Spain] (March 10, 1452 AD – January 23, 1516 AD)
• St. Sir Thomas More [England] (February 7, 1478 AD – July 6, 1535 AD)
• St. Ignatius of Loyola (December 24, 1491 AD – July 31, 1556 AD)
• Charles V [Holy Roman Empire, Spain] (February 24, 1500 AD – September 21, 1558 AD)
• Phillip II [Spain] (May 21, 1527 AD – September 13, 1598 AD)
• Don John of Austria [Spain] (February 24, 1547 AD – October 1, 1578 AD)
• Jacques Bénigne Bossuet [France] (September 27, 1627 AD – April 12, 1704 AD)
• Jan III Sobieski [Polish –Lithuanian Commonwealth] (August 17, 1629 AD – June 17, 1696 AD)
• Samuel Johnson [Great Britain] (September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1709 AD – December 13, 1784 AD)
• Edmund Burke [Great Britain] (January 12, 1729 AD – July 9, 1797 AD)
• John Adams [United States of America {Massachusetts}] (October 30, 1735 AD – July 4, 1826 AD)
• Joseph de Maistre [Kingdom of Sardinia] (April 1, 1753 AD – February 26, 1821 AD)
• Louis de Bonald [France] (October 2, 1754 AD – November 23, 1840 AD)
• François René de Chateaubriand [France] (September 4, 1768 AD – July 4, 1848 AD)
• Sir Walter Scott [Scotland] (August 15, 1771 AD – September 21, 1832 AD)
• Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich [Austro –Hungarian Empire] (May 15, 1773 AD – June 11, 1859 AD)
• Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 AD – February 7, 1878 AD )
• Les Vendéens [1793 AD –1796 AD] [France]
• Benjamin Disraeli [Great Britain] (December 21, 1804 AD – April 19, 1881 AD)
• Alexis de Tocqueville [France] (July 29, 1805 AD – April 16, 1859 AD)
• Juan Donoso Cortes [Spain] (May 6, 1809 AD – May 3, 1853 AD)
• Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 AD – July 20, 1903 AD )
• Gabriel Garcia Moreno [Ecuador] (December 24, 1821 AD – August 6, 1875 AD)
• St. Pope Pius X (June 2, 1835 AD — August 20, 1914 AD )
• Pope Benedict XV (November 21, 1854 AD – January 22, 1922 AD)
• Pope Pius XII (March 2, 1876 AD – October 9, 1958 AD )
• Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo [Spain] (November 3, 1856 AD – May 2, 1912 AD)
• Juan Vázquez de Mella [Spain] (June 8, 1861 AD – February 26, 1928 AD)
• Pyotr Stolypin [Russia] (April 14 [O.S. April 2], 1862 AD – September 18 [O.S. September 5], 1911 AD)
• Paul Claudel [France] (August 6, 1868 AD – February 23, 1955 AD)
• Hilaire Belloc [Great Britain, France] (July 27, 1870 AD – July 16, 1953 AD)
• G.K. Chesterton [Great Britain] (May 29, 1874 AD – June 14, 1936 AD)
• Sir Winston Churchill [Great Britain] (November 30, 1874 AD – January 24, 1965 AD)
• Ramiro de Maeztú [Spain] (May 4, 1875 AD – October 29, 1936 AD)
• Konrad Adenauer [Germany] (January 5, 1876 AD – April 19, 1967 AD )
• Bl. Charles I [Austro-Hungarian Empire] (August 17, 1887 AD – April 1, 1922 AD)
• T.S. Eliot [United States of America, Great Britain] (September 26, 1888 AD – January 4, 1965 AD)
• J.R.R. Tolkien [Great Britain {England}] (January 3, 1892 AD – September 2, 1973 AD )
• Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty [Hungary] (March 29, 1892 AD – May 6, 1975 AD)
• C.S. Lewis [Great Britain] (November 29, 1898 AD – November 22, 1963 AD )
• St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (January 9, 1902 AD – June 26, 1975 AD )
• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg [Germany {Swabia}] (November 15, 1907 AD – July 21, 1944 AD)
• Plinio Correa de Oliveira [Brazil] (December 13, 1908 AD – October 3, 1995 AD)
• Richard Weaver [United States of America {North Carolina}] (March 3, 1910 AD – April 1, 1963 AD)
• Ronald Wilson Reagan [United States of America {California}] (February 6, 1911 AD – June 5, 2004 AD)
• Nicolás Gómez Dávila [Colombia] (May 18, 1913 AD – May 17, 1994 AD)
• Russell Kirk [United States of America {Michigan}] (October 19, 1918 AD – 29 April 1994 AD)
• Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn [Russia] (December 11, 1918 AD – August 3, 2008 AD )
• Pope John Paul II (May 18, 1920 AD – April 2, 2005 AD )
• William F. Buckley, Jr. [United States of America {Connecticut, New York}] (November 24, 1925 AD – February 25, 2008 AD)
• Los Cristeros [1926 AD – 1929 AD] [Mexico]
• Vaclav Havel [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic] (October 5, 1936 AD – )
• Lech Walesa [Poland] (September 29, 1943 AD – )