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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
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"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."

"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."

"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."

"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."

"Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11."

"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed."

"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."

"Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era."

"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."


"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."


"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
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