The conscience of a Conservative

Chapter 22: FOOTNOTES:

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A collection of essays and speeches that articulate a conservative philosophy emphasizing limited federal power, individual liberty, free-market economics, and states’ rights. It criticizes expansive welfare programs, high taxation, and centralized government intervention while arguing for decentralized solutions for agriculture, labor, education, and public welfare. It warns against governmental overreach and the communist threat, and seeks to translate theoretical principles into practical political action, urging conservatives to demonstrate how longstanding moral and practical doctrines apply to contemporary policy challenges.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is a strange label indeed: it implies that “ordinary” Conservatism is opposed to progress. Have we forgotten that America made its greatest progress when Conservative principles were honored and preserved.

[2] These figures do not include interest payments on the national debt.

[3] The total figure is substantially higher than the $15,000,000,000 noted above if we take into account welfare expenditures outside the Department of Health, Education and Welfare—for federal housing projects, for example.