The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal … Continue reading Speech (1963-12-13), “Wealth and Poverty,” National Policy Committee on Pockets of Poverty