It (Conservatism) understands the important role that traditions, institutions, habits and authority have in our social life together, and recognizes many of our national institutions as products of principles developed over time by custom, the lessons of experience, and consensus. Conservatives are interested in pursuing policies that will better reinforce and encourage the best of our people’s common culture, habits and beliefs. Conservatism, too, is based on the belief that the social order is based on the beleif that the social order rests upon a moral base, and that is what ties us together as a people—the unum in e pluribus unum—is in constant need of support.—William Bennett, The Devaluing of America
