Conservatism Quotes
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...