A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. - Irving Kristol

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

[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.

It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse...