“It's serious. We need to conserve year-round, but this is crunch time.”
“We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.”
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older.
Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.
There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
“This district had been Republican until Dave Obey was elected. This is a conservative district.”