A Conservative Is A Liberal Mugged By

The Major Political Event Of The Twentieth Century Is The Death Of Socialism.

As A Result Of The Efforts Of Hayek .. And The Many Others Who Share His General Outlook, The Idea Of A Centrally Planned And Centrally Administered Economy, So Popular In The 1930s And Early 1940s, Has Been Discredited.

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

[conservatism:] Our Revolutionary Message... Is That A Self-disciplined People Can Create A Political Community In Which An Ordered Liberty Will Promote Both Economic Prosperity And Political Participation.

If You Care For The Quality Of Life In Our American Democracy, Then You Have To Be For Censorship.