CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES

Government  "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.  In forming a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."   - The Federalist Papers

Liberty  "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites.  Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will or appetite is placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without.  It is ordained in the eternal order of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge their fetters."    - Edmund Burke

LOGIC

Consistency  "[A]ny system that denies the law of noncontradiction fails the test of logical consistency because while denying it, it affirms the law at the same time."  - Ravi Zacharias