There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. — Henry George Copy Share Image
“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he… — William Swan Plumer Copy Share Image
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong. — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
“Middle-status conservatism reflects the anxiety experienced by one who aspires to a social station but fears disenfranchisement.” The fall from low to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against… — Leonard Lance Copy Share Image
We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money… — Tim Montgomerie Copy Share Image
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“At the time, he told his children to watch themselves, to understand that the tides of conservatism came and went and if… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Classical liberalism . . . does not wholly define modern American conservatism. There is an added element: a concern with social and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“As the social matrix becomes increasingly subject to rapid fluctuations, throwing out anchors into a collectivised past becomes more prominent than movement… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions,… — Corey Robin Copy Share Image
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