Here are all 20 of the Conservative Principles I have detailed in my last 20 posts. This is put here for anyone who would like to print this off, either to study it themselves or to hand out to someone who may be interested in these ideas.
Conservative Principles
1 Conservatives believe that there exists an enduring moral
order, human nature is constant and moral truths are permanent. They understand
that men and women are best content when they can feel that they live in a
stable world of enduring values.
2 Conservatives believe in traditions, customs, conventions
and permanence. When those who seek to destroy the old ways succeed they start
to create the exact same things that they claimed they didn’t need or want
customs, conventions and permanence.
3 The Principle of Prudence: think before you leap.
4 The Principle of Variety: We should respect the variety
within the human race, which includes class, sex, race and ability, amongst
others.
5 The Principle of Hierarchy: Hierarchy preserves and
protects the whole community simultaneously, instead of protecting one part at
the expense of the others.
6 That freedom and private property is such a close link
that to take one away is to take away the other.
7 The Conservative does not put his trust in mere
benevolence. Constitutional restrictions, political checks and balances, adequate
enforcement of the law and the old intricate web of restraint upon will and
appetite, these the Conservative approves as instruments of freedom and order.
A just Government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority
and the claims of liberty.
8 The Conservative knows that any healthy society is
influenced by two forces, which Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it’s permanence
and it’s progression, in short the Conservative favours reasoned and temperate
progress. He is opposed to the cult of progress, which believes that everything
new is superior to everything old.
9 The Conservative knows that there is no war between the
sexes because men and women are the twin pillars of the human race. They are
mutually supporting, bringing the opposite of what the other has, they fit
together and are expressly made to fit together.
10 The Principle of Mutual Obligation: The poor and the weak
should be protected from the rich and the strong, but it is better to encourage
those able to look after themselves to do so and to concentrate on those truly
in need of our aid and protection.
11 The Principle of Defence: The Defence of the Nation and
it’s interests is a permanent mandate of Government, it has no higher duty.
12 The Principle of Respect: Conservatives believe that
Traditional authority should be respected, not absolute obedience but respect.
13 The Principle of Patriotism: Patriotism is right and
proper.
14 Conservatism attempts to discern a “pattern in history”
that will yield “clues” as to what is feasible or infeasible
15 Conservatives do not believe man to be perfectible if
only his institutions can be reformed or destroyed, conservatives hold that man
by his very nature is a mixture of good and evil, of rationality and
irrationality.
16 Firms should be profitable, not for profit but so that
they can remain an ongoing concern.
17 Employees matter, wherever in the company they are.
18 Customers keep the business in business, they matter.
19 All business should be striving for situations of mutual
benefit/profit and not be engaged in economic cannibalism.
20 Debt should be temporary and not permanent. The aim is to
assemble a surplus not to assemble debt. Debt is bad.
Upon Hope Blog - A Traditional Conservative Future
An excellent list.
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