On the other hand, if you leave everything to conservatives, you may end up with a house sturdy enough to handle a 9.0 earthquake and a Class IV tornado but so uninviting the kids won t visit, much less live there. Liberals don t build institutions. Colleges, hospitals, publishing houses, summer camps, academies, and churches are all built by conservatives. But liberals are the ones flexible enough to bend the original vision to fit present reality. Conservatives are the ones with enough conviction to part with their hard-earned dollars and actually get something going.
Liberals are the ones willing to ask hard questions about efficiency and effectiveness.
Conservatives make the best evangelists. They are confident of what they believe. They know what other people need. And their convictions are specific enough to be readily communicated. Conservatives formulate the ideas, gather the people and build the institutions which become the targets of liberal remodeling efforts.