The problem with American conservatism is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the ideal of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems, and thinks that it is better to impose truth rather than to risk losing one’s soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society.
— Lew Rockwell
