This book is not written with the idea of adding to or improving on the Conservative philosophy. Or of “bringing it up to date.” The ancient and tested truths that guided our Republic through its earl...

I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amount...

The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks at His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later...

The Governor of New York, in 1930, pointed out that the Constitution does not empower the Congress to deal with “a great number of⁠ ⁠… vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utili...

An attempt has been made in recent years to disparage the principle of States’ Rights by equating it with defense of the South’s position on racial integration. I have already indicated that the reach...

Hamilton was wrong in his prediction as to what men would do, but quite right in foreseeing the consequences of their foolhardiness. Federal intervention in agriculture has, indeed, proved “troublesom...

If I had to select the vote I regard as the most important of my Senate career it would be the one I cast on the Kennedy-Ervin “Labor Reform” Bill of 1959. The Senate passed the measure 90⁠–⁠1; the di...

We all have heard much throughout our lifetimes, and seen little happen, on the subject of high taxes. Where is the politician who has not promised his constituents a fight to the death for lower taxe...

For many years it appeared that the principal domestic threat to our freedom was contained in the doctrines of Karl Marx. The collectivists⁠—non-Communists as well as Communists⁠—had adopted the Marxi...

I agree with lobbyists for federal school aid that education is one of the great problems of our day. I am afraid, however, that their views and mine regarding the nature of the problem are many miles...

And still the awful truth remains: We can establish the domestic conditions for maximizing freedom, along the lines I have indicated, and yet become slaves. We can do this by losing the Cold War to th...

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 ...