Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.

Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.