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en The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

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

en This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades, ... There was no reason for him to choose anyone but one of these outstanding conservatives.

en Philosophically, he has more in common with liberals, who see no limits to state power as long as it is used to advance what they think is right. In the same way, Bush has used government to pursue a 'conservative' agenda as he sees fit. But that is something that runs totally contrary to the restraints and limits of power inherent in the very nature of traditional conservatism. It is inconceivable to traditional conservatives that there could ever be such a thing as 'big government conservatism,' a term often used to describe Bush's philosophy.

en If you put a conservative in as insurance commissioner, I have no idea what he might do. You're having policy wonks, good-government types, meeting head on with movement conservatives. In politics, success breeds more interest.

en Lastly, though I affirm that after a man hath arrived to such a condition in which a man may not sin, he yet may sin; I will nevertheless not deny but there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stability of this condition they can not sin. He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness.

en George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.

en have had to pass through bitter experiences, to fall and stand up again. We managed to move our people from refugees to freedom fighters, from a vanguard revolution to a liberation movement, from a revolution to an authority, and from an authority we will move them to a state.
  Yasser Arafat

en What conservatives have realized during the last five years is that we have not elected a conservative president. Nor do we have a conservative majority in either the House or Senate.

en Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative Party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory.

en Many of us think of her as one of the mothers of the modern women's movement. She played a very pivotal, very critical role in launching the second wave of the modern women's movement.

en the Republican takeover - which is to say, political success - dealt the mortal blow. Conservative institutions, conceived for combat, have in power become self-perpetuating, churning their direct-mail lists in pursuit of cash. ... The current story of Jack Abramoff's lucrative self-dealing, involving as it does such movement stalwarts as Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist, may seem lunatic in its excesses, but ... the point is the ease with which the stalwarts commandeered the greasy machinery of Washington power. Conservative activists came to Washington to do good and stayed to do well. The grease rubbed off, too.

en [t]he Republican takeover -- which is to say, political success -- dealt the mortal blow. Conservative institutions, conceived for combat, have in power become self-perpetuating, churning their direct-mail lists in pursuit of cash. . . . The current story of Jack Abramoff's lucrative self-dealing, involving as it does such movement stalwarts as Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist, may seem lunatic in its excesses, but . . . [t]he point is the ease with which the stalwarts commandeered the greasy machinery of Washington power. Conservative activists came to Washington to do good and stayed to do well. The grease rubbed off, too.

en If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The so-called right-to-life movement in the United States has expanded its agenda way beyond the original focus on abortion. Given the political power of religious conservatives, the impact a whole range of patient services could be in danger.


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