Conservatism Quotes

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

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.

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.