It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an…

One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a…

— Melanne Verveer

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

— Cornel West

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

— Glenn Greenwald

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…

— Jill Lepore

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

— Clinton Rossiter

“At the time, he told his children to watch themselves, to understand that the tides of conservatism came and went and if they could…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

— Cate Blanchett

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

— Kristina Schroder

“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr

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

— Marco Rubio