I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

We're operating very close to the conservative end of undersea habitation. The challenges go up exponentially as you go deeper.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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