“The opportunity to live our lives as we will; the security of impartial law, through which our grievances are answered and our hurts restored; the protection of our environment as a shared asset, which cannot be seized or destroyed at the whim of powerful interests; the open and enquiring culture that has shaped our schools and universities; the democratic procedures that enable us to elect our representatives and to pass our own laws–these and many other things are familiar to us and taken for granted. All are under threat. And conservatism is the rational response to that threat.” – How to be a Conservative, published September 11, 2014