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Conservatism Quotes

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

Authors on Conservatism Quotes: Rush Limbaugh William F. Buckley, Jr. Mark Twain Clinton Rossiter Marco Rubio Robertson Davies Abraham Kuyper Salman Rushdie Joe R. Lansdale Craig Reucassel Harry Golden Romola Garai Erick Erickson Theodore Roosevelt John Maynard Keynes Criss Jami George Orwell Eric Hoffer Sarah Palin Matthew Continetti Christina Stead Gerald R. Ford Garrett Hardin Benjamin Disraeli Tom Wolfe Miguel de Unamuno Brian Eno Friedrich August von Hayek Charlie Munger Laura Schlessinger Robert Redford Camille Paglia Morris Raphael Cohen
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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.
George Orwell

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

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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
Friedrich August von Hayek

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Conservatism is the politics of reality
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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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.
Morris Raphael Cohen

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Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.
Clinton Rossiter

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

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

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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
Brian Eno

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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.
Charlie Munger

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

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

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Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Craig Reucassel

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

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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
John Maynard Keynes

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

22.
What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?
Sarah Palin

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

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

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

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

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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.
Joe R. Lansdale

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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
Christina Stead

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

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

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

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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.
Gerald R. Ford

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

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

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