There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

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.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.