Conservatism Quotes
I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect.
There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to
Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy, joining arm in arm against change.
The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.
Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.
God loves cleanliness.The environment must be kept clean.
He fetishized limits.
He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more
Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.