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“To the extent we look to some distant government to tend to our character and needs, we lose the habits of face-to-face involvement, cooperation, and conflict in which we learn to respect ourselves and other people. We lose the essential, concrete communities in which we become something more than individuals: real persons participating in associations where we belong and have purpose.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“True freedom depends on local self-government, effective access of the people to their individual rights. Sometimes I question whether the United States has not reached the limit of size under which the people of a nation can have a real voice in its government.”
― Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“American conservatism is best characterized as the process of identifying, articulated, and refining principles both gleaned by natural reason and revealed by Jewish and Christian scriptures, but perfected and specified as norms growing out of English, and then American, experiences.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“All ideologies are characterized by abstract and universal claims that are suited to a narrow rationalism but ill-suited to human experience.”
― Ted V. McAllister