Conservatives for the Environment
“We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own [...]
“I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation’s natural resources.” Ronald Reagan 1983
Personal Note from Rob Sisson, President of ConservAmerica As a cradle Catholic, I have been following the recent events at the Vatican with great interest. Pope Francis, in just a few days, has made it clear that creation care will be one of the priorities of his papacy. This morning, at his inauguration Mass, he [...]
This week, we go way back to our Founding Fathers. In The Federalist Papers (No. 63), the following quote is attributed to Alexander Hamilton: “…liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as by the abuses power.” We often speak of every right being married to a responsibility. Here, Hamilton foreshadows the American conservation [...]
“Finally, I would suggest that this new body must anticipate new problems even as it focuses on present ones. It is not enough that it provide answers to the questions we are asking today. It must also pose the new questions which will face us tomorrow.” Richard M. Nixon’s statement on the creation of the [...]
“As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.” President Richard M. Nixon, State of the Union Message on [...]
President Reagan's 1981 Christmas Address
“The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources–preserving quality with quantity–is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.” [...]
