Coming Home Quotes

“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

“Few principles are more important to American conservatism than the need to love the particular and the flawed over the abstract and apparently perfect.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“American conservatism is best characterized as the process of identifying, articulated, and refining principles both gleaned by natural reason and revealed by Jewish and Christian scriptures, but perfected and specified as norms growing out of English, and then American, experiences.”
― Ted V. McAllister, Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul

“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