The most profound radicalism is often the most profound…

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

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

— Mark Twain

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism.…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that technique to…

— Russell Kirk

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to…

— Richard T. Ely

“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

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

— Clinton Rossiter

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

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

“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