“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: The sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.
This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: Peace, Freedom, Law, Civility, Public Spirit, the security of property, and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means single-handedly to obtain it.
In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull.
That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false.”
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