30 years ago in reason."I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism libertarianism Political philosophy that stresses personal liberty. Libertarians believe that individuals should have complete freedom of action, provided their actions do not infringe on the freedom of others. .... The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. authority or more individual freedom." "I cannot go along with the libertarian philosophy that says that all of the sin laws can be ruled out as simply trying to protect us from ourselves. You can take the case of the father who gambles his money away and thus leaves his family dependent on the rest of us." "Our greatest threat today comes from government's involvement in things that are not government's proper province. And in those things government has a magnificent record of failure." "Don't tell me that we couldn't have licked the North Vietnamese North Vietnam A former country of southeast Asia. It existed from 1954, after the fall of the French at Dien Bien Phu, to 1975, when the South Vietnamese government collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War. It is now part of the country of Vietnam. . My God! Their gross national product is the equivalent of that of Cleveland, Ohio "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation). Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. !" --"Inside Ronald Reagan: A REASON Interview" --July 1975 |
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