The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

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.

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

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.