A Conservative Is A Fellow Who Is

I Find It Easier To Believe In God Than To Believe Hamlet Was Deduced From The Molecular Structure Of A Mutton Chop.

I Mean To Live My Life An Obedient Man, But Obedient To God, Subservient To The Wisdom Of My Ancestors; Never To The Authority Of Political Truths Arrived At Yesterday At The Voting Booth.

We Are So Concerned To Flatter The Majority That We Lose Sight Of How Very Often It Is Necessary, In Order To Preserve Freedom For The Minority, Let Alone For The Individual, To Face That Majority Down.

We View Our Atomic Arsenal As Proudly And As Devotedly As Any Pioneer Ever Viewed His Flintlock Hanging Over The Mantel As His Children Slept, And Dreamed.

One Must Recently Have Lived On Or Close To A College Campus To Have A Vivid Intimation Of What Has Happened. It Is There That We See How A Number Of Energetic Social Innovators, Plugging Their Grand Designs, Succeeded Over The Years In Capturing The Liberal Intellectual Imagination. And Since Ideas Rule The World, The Ideologues, Having Won Over The Intellectual Class, Simply Walked In And Started To Run Things. Run Just About Everything. There Never Was An Age Of Conformity Quite Like This One, Or A Camaraderie Quite Like The Liberals'.