Source: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Five, Dumb-Down Taxes, p. 115
“A true conservative — who is, above all, an anti-ideologue — will often be attacked for alleged inconsistency, for changing positions, for promising change but not a radical break with the past, for pursuing two objectives — like liberty and authority, or change and continuity — that seem to all ideologues as completely contradictory.”
"The Necessary Contradictions of a Conservative", The Daily Dish (13 November 2013) http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/11/13/the-necessary-contradictions-of-a-conservative/
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