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" Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism. "

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" My faith, my family, my friends - that's where I get my strength. "

" We are all people who have messed up. I fall short every single day. "

" We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels. "

" Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it. They work very hard to create as many levels as possible away from the simplistic government our Founding Fathers formed for one simple reason: they don't want you to know what they are doing. "

" The biggest threats to faith aren't anything outside of it: they come bearing the name. It's why I find it especially important to call it out - also why I find it especially repulsive when people who crow the loudest about being Christians and use it as a money-making scheme utterly betray the faith when not on camera or in a crowd. "

" I've had friends who have experienced pretty horrible things, some pretty brutal things, and survived. And I know that they and I would never want them to be without the ability to defend themselves. "

" The tea party wants to empower people with opportunity and the freedom for the individual to pursue success and keep the fruits of their success. "

" The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution. "

" If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice, they would never get help. "

" The fallout from Wikileaks is incomparable to 9/11, the U.S.S. Cole, numerous embassies, et al. "

" I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty. "

" I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom. "

" It's difficult to expect kids not to bully one another when they don't have many examples otherwise in society. "

" When taxes go up, tithing goes down. When the government assumes the role of the shepherd, the power of churches is diminished. It's another way to attack religion and for the state to eradicate it from society. "

" I'm a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement. "

" I can't count a single conservative of my acquaintance that doesn't include charitable work in their list of priorities. "

" We can't disrespect, by way discounting or misunderstanding our different sticking points, the beliefs of the various groups comprising the tea party movement, but we all have more in common with each other than we do with factions on the Left: the communists, the socialists, the say-they're-anarchists-but-are-actually-socialists. "

Misunderstanding

" If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it. "

" What battle has ever been won by staying in camp and talking to your fellow soldier? "

" People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good. "

" Even if feminists tear down the bogeyman patriarchy and dominate men in all areas of life, they still won't be happy because deep down, they'll know it's a false victory. Achievement obtained by lowering your opponent to your standard as opposing to rising and surpassing their standard of output isn't achievement. It's mediocrity. "

" Liberty is never fully paid off, and to be deserving of it, one must be willing to fight for it on the battlefield, in the halls of Congress, by involving yourselves in your communities. Such a struggle is not a burden, it is a privilege. "

" The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution? "

" Conservatives don't need to look for 'hope' in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men. "