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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One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.
When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.