Conservative Party (Mississippi)

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005 ~

Identifying oneself with the Conservative Party can often bring forth a barrage of comments that we, as Conservatives, are a “party of the past”, that we are “always looking back, never forward”, and so on. This is probably meant as criticism, but the truth of the matter is that there are periods in history where retreat was, and is, smart. And not just in warfare.

C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963, was a noted Irish author and scholar, and an outstanding Oxford academic. In lectures given by him in the mid-1940′s, there are two quotations from his series, “Right and Wrong” that can be seen as a clue to the meaning of the Universe. Doctor Lewis first sets up an image with the rhetorical statement that “you can’t put the clock back.” He then comments, “Would you think I was joking if I said that you can put a clock back, and that if the clock is wrong, it’s often the sensible thing to do?” (more…)