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“Individualism leads not to freedom, but to the absence of maturity or character; it leads us to retreat into an intensely private world, a tiny space in which we may exercise our singular, feckless will.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“To the extent we look to some distant government to tend to our character and needs, we lose the habits of face-to-face involvement, cooperation, and conflict in which we learn to respect ourselves and other people. We lose the essential, concrete communities in which we become something more than individuals: real persons participating in associations where we belong and have purpose.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“All ideologies are characterized by abstract and universal claims that are suited to a narrow rationalism but ill-suited to human experience.”
― Ted V. McAllister

“True freedom depends on local self-government, effective access of the people to their individual rights. Sometimes I question whether the United States has not reached the limit of size under which the people of a nation can have a real voice in its government.”
― Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans