The conscience of a Conservative

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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.

Transcriber’s Notes:

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text and relabeled consecutively through the document.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

p. 46: is changed to are (conceived, are an)

p. 118: paring changed to parrying (to parrying his)