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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
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Condemnatory conservatism isn’t anything I’m interested in.
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
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Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside – it’s the filling that really means something.
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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It is not about Republicanism, it’s about conservatism.
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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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