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You can learn in three different ways:
1. By personal experience.
2. By observation.
3. By studying the experience of others.
You can't experience or observe everything, but you can, by reading, learn from the experiences of your contemporaries, the previous generation, and those who lived ages ago.
After you have accumulated a lot of knowledge about how the world really works, you can become highly effective and achieve many things important to you.
If you're a conservative activist, student, or leader, start here.
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Advice to a Just-Elected Conservative Friend
by Morton C. Blackwell Nov. 1998
You should be getting a lot smarter now. That's not because almost everyone will now tell you how smart you are. They will, of course, like never before. Even your old friends will laugh much harder at your jokes.
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Another Large Influx of Grassroots Conservatives
by Morton C. Blackwell Jul. 2010
Among the millions of newly-active grassroots conservatives in politics, thousands of the best are coming to the Leadership Institute to study how to win.
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Anti-PAC Agitation is a Liberal Power Grab
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Before there was a Federal Election Commission, way back in 1943, the militantly liberal Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) formed the very first political action committee (PAC).
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The Conservative Organizational Entrepreneur
by Morton C. Blackwell May. 1995
In 1965, experienced conservative friends much older than I advised me there was no way to earn a living doing what I wanted to do, work full time for conservative principles. Though filled with good intentions, they were wrong.
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Conservative Outreach to "Minorities"
by Morton C. Blackwell Mar. 2013
Conservatives must break the still-strong power of hard-line leftists over certain categories of Americans.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
No activist can work in the public policy process for long without running across one or more conspiracy theories.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
American colleges and universities are very different from the nation that surrounds them. The differences are especially profound when it comes to politics.
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Do You Want to be a National Convention Delegate?
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
In early 1961, I decided to try to be a Goldwater delegate to the 1964 Republican National Convention.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
The Leadership Institute's Questions Which Can Accumulate Evidence of Excellence in Employees
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How to Present a Public Program
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
This manual is written especially for leaders of independent conservative student organizations or student divisions of campaigns who use public programs as a part of an overall strategy to advance a cause or a candidate of their choice.
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How to Stop Them From Stomping Out the Grassroots
by Morton C. Blackwell Sep. 2015
Knowledgeable conservatives, in moments of candor, will admit our grassroots activity is far less today than a dozen years ago.
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Ideas, Actions, and Consequences
by Morton C. Blackwell Sep. 2015
If ideas, in and of themselves, really do have consequences, then being right, in the sense of being correct, is sufficient. This writing explains why political battles, do not often turn on the question of who is probably right.
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The Laws Of The Public Policy Process
by Morton C. Blackwell Mar. 2015
The Laws of Public Policy
1. Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.
2. Don’t fire all your ammunition at once.
3. Don’t get mad except on purpose.
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Lecture to the August 2007 Field Representative Class
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
A speech to the fall 2007 Leadership Institute field representatives.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
What follows is advice for conservatives of whatever party. Here is how you can be a party leader, even if you're starting from scratch:
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by Blanquita Cullum Oct. 2015
First of all, I have to tell you that I would do anything for Morton and Helen Blackwell because they’re probably the two greatest people in the conservative movement.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Some candidates lose because they can't raise enough money. Others lose because their election districts are demographically wrong. But many losing candidates could have won, if they had avoided making one or more of the following common mistakes.
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Mistakes of Winning Candidates
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Some candidates win but disappoint their supporters and even themselves. They achieve little or nothing of what they hoped to do. Here are incumbents' worst mistakes.
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Morton Blackwell's Writing Standards & Style Guide
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Morton Blackwell's writing guide outlines what makes writing effective.
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Morton Blackwell’s Famous Foolproof Fundraising Formula
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Of the many ways students raise funds for campus public policy activities and organizations, only the following method, personal solicitation, has proved to be universally successful.
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One Step Backward Isn't the End of Communism
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Many conservatives I thought were smart are not. Being used to fighting only on the defensive against communism, they don't know how to go on the offensive.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
In my years of political activity beginning in 1960, I have found no shortage of conservatives willing to tell the political parties what they should do.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
A conservative intellectual in St. Louis recently wrote to tell me, in effect, that he long ago gave up hope of achieving anything worthwhile through the political process. He eloquently damns politics, politicians and all their works.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
The difference between power and influence and the role of each in politics.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Remarks to the combined classes of the Jesse Helms School of Government at Liberty University, February 21, 2006. These remarks were later mailed to all Leadership Institute graduates.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Some people bluntly say they don't read. They say they would read if only they had the time. I will also be blunt: You have time to do what you choose to do. The more you read, the better you read -- and the more you enjoy it.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
What I am about to share with you is probably the most important lesson you will learn at any time in your life about success in the public policy process.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
The Roots of the Ultra Left is an in-depth looks at 35 things the ultra left really thinks.
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Social Change and Friends of Liberty
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
In the October, 1948, Partisan Review, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., wrote, "I see no obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United States through a series of New Deals."
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
I will focus today on a topic none of you have ever heard me address before: sex. Right now, Washington, D.C. is experiencing two sex scandals which affect the party you have joined.
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by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Next to Ronald Reagan, no single person has achieved more to advance the cause of American conservatism than Paul Weyrich.
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The United States and Russia -- An Odd Couple of Friends
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
On the face of it, Russia and the United States of America appear to have little in common.
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What’s the Real Nature of Conservative Politics?
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Political terms mean different things in different countries, and they mean different things in the same countries at different times.
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Why Jesse Helms is the Country's Favorite Conservative Senator
by Morton C. Blackwell Oct. 2015
Why has Sen. Jesse Helms for so long been our country's very favorite conservative senator? Let me count the reasons: