A liberal looks back with a contemptuous sneer at his barbarous ancestors; a traditionalist looks back with respect at the great men who preceded him, and without whom he would not exist.
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Who is truly "free": the man who is driven by a thousand different desires, and whose whole life is spent in pursuit of their satisfaction, or the man who has the self-discipline to control those desires and not give in to them?
If conservatism is a counterculture, it is a rather weak and ineffectual one. Conservatism's modus operandi is "let's get everyone around the table for a discussion". This doesn't work when your opposition are not reasonable people. Conservatives are the first to make concessions and the last to resort to harsh measures. They are always on defence and never on the offensive. Over time this had led to loss after loss for the conservative cause, as a survey of the history of conservatism shows.