Conservatism Quotes · Page 8

“[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.”

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

— Woodrow Wilson

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

— Allan Bloom

“Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?”

— Oleg Atbashian

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

— Monica Crowley

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

— Rick Perry

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

— Richard Corliss

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

— Steve Schmidt

“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old…

— Timothy C.W. Blanning

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…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their…

— Marvin Olasky

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing…

— Ted Cruz

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both…

— Irving Kristol

If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where…

— Edmund White

Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are…

— Andrew Breitbart

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

— Robertson Davies

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Conservatism, by itself, is not the defeating agent for liberalism today. At one point I was among many who thought it would…

— Rush Limbaugh

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas…

— Dale E Turner

I think the Respublican party's lost its way. We have given into nativism and protectionism. And I think that, if we're going…

— Jeff Flake

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that…

— Douglas Murray

“And so I want us to look at injustice and its polar opposite, justice, which we are told is a requirement of…

— Diane Mandt Langberg

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

— Michael Enzi

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

— Marco Rubio

“Think about it... The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. No wonder they don't believe in…

— Andy Borowitz

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

— Sigmund Freud

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

— Ronald Reagan

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

— Anonymous

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Abraham Kuyper

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

— Charlie Sykes

“Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.”

— Rick Perlstein

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war…

— Thomas Frank

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Harry Golden

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing…

— Herbert Croly

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,—…

— Barry Goldwater