Conservatism Quotes · Page 6

I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.

— Kane

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

— John Redwood

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

— Bill Kristol

A cohort's 'liberalism' or 'conservatism' is dependent on the success of the presidential administration they come of age under.

— Harry Enten

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

— Bobby Jindal

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

— William E. Gladstone

It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he…

— Charlie Sykes

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past…

— Matteo Renzi

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true…

— Robert Lighthizer

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…

— Thomas Frank

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex…

— David Horowitz

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their…

— Marco Rubio

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect…

— Jonathan Krohn

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university…

— Hugh Hefner

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age…

— Noam Chomsky

“By its largely rhetorical devotion to the free market and its actual policies of constructing a permanent war economy, conservatism helps to…

— Anonymous

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why…

— Gerald Horne

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act…

— Robertson Davies

The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which…

— Robert Dickson Crane

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance…

— Rick Perlstein

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

— David Frum

The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.

— Dominic Grieve

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

— Robert Redford

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.

— Mike Gallagher

“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I think if conservatives spent more time planting trees the world would be a better place.

— Jeremy Limn

“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.”

— Francis August Schaeffer

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

— Zadie Smith

“Young professionals, I reminded myself, sympathetic as they may seem with a disarming modesty, are always necessarily invested in conservatism.”

— Stan Goff

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

— Malachy McCourt

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that…

— Jonathan Krohn

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy…

— Jeff Sharlet

“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.”

— George will

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

— Richard Cohen

“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in…

— Allan Bloom