Conservatives feel instinctively that it is new ideas more than anything else that cause change. But, from its point of view rightly, conservatism fears new ideas because it has no distinctive principles of its own to oppose them; and, by its distrust of theory and its lack of imagination concerning anything except that which experience has already proved, it deprives itself of the weapons needed in the struggle of ideas. Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.

That the conservative opposition to too much government control is not a matter of principle but is concerned with the particular aims of government is clearly…

Without preferring the new merely because it is new, the liberal is aware that it is of the essence of human achievement that it produces something new; and he…

It is not democracy but unlimited government that is objectionable, and I do not see why the people should not learn to limit the scope of majority rule as wel…

'Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.'

Thanks to its chokehold on the nation's culture, liberalism is thus in power whether its politicians are elected or not; it rules over us even though Republica…

La liberte n'est pas un echange, c'est la liberte.