“Conservatism is more an instinct than an idea. But it’s the instinct that I think we all ultimately share... to hold on to what we love, to protect it from degradation and violence and to build our lives around it.”
“It starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”
Roger Scruton
The British people are a conservative people.
They require the case being made to them for why social conservatism is a sensible choice for ordinary people.
Examine our research and comment on different aspects of social conservatism – and how we engage in making a robust intellectual argument.
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Our society functions best when its institutions cooperate with each other.
Our country works best when its communities support one another.
We perform best when we take personal responsbility.
“There can be no freedom without order, and there is no order without virtue. Now, that’s a simple enough formulation, but it’s an insight found not only in the writings of great political thinkers like Edmund Burke; it is also found in a great part of our Judeo-Christian tradition.”
― Ronald Reagan
“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
“The facts of life are conservative.”
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