“It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the religious conservatives or the business conservatives.”

So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

“Its virtually inconceivable that the outcome of that conference would be positive to conservation,”

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.

Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

I think among different members there had been concerns that the RSC had grown so large, and it had many members who really didn't have that conservative voting records, which really is a testimony to what a positive brand conservatism is.