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

3.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

4.
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

8.
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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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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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
Mark Twain

19.
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

21.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
Criss Jami

22.
I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.
Matthew Continetti

23.
What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?
Sarah Palin

24.
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

27.
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

30.
[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

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

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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