Category: American Literature

The conscience of a Conservative

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 amounts to breast-beating. “Republican candidates,” Vice President Nixon has said,...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER ONE The Conscience of a Conservative

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 commitme...

2. CHAPTER TWO The Perils of Power

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...

3. CHAPTER THREE States’ Rights

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...

4. CHAPTER FOUR And Civil Rights

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 i...

5. CHAPTER FIVE Freedom For The Farmer

_“... supervision of agriculture and other concerns of a similar nature ... which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general j...

6. CHAPTER SIX Freedom For Labor

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...

7. CHAPTER SEVEN Taxes and Spending

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 t...

8. CHAPTER EIGHT The Welfare State

Washington--The President estimated that the expenditures of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the fiscal year 1961 (including Social Security payments) would e...

9. CHAPTER NINE Some Notes On Education

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...

10. CHAPTER TEN The Soviet Menace

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 lo...