There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. — Henry George 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
“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.” — Eric Hoffer 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
Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control and college loans. It's not because I'm a conservative, it's because… — John Hawkins 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
For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz 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
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
“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
“The left loses most policy debates, leading them to engage in the politics of personal destruction. Many liberals do not see conservatives… — Eric Golub Copy Share Image
“The Tea Party that reenergized the GOP in 2010 and that implacably attacked Obama turned out to be a familiar nemesis of… — Ian Haney López 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
“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 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
“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
“Not everyone agrees with these descriptions of Buckley. Other writers on both the left and the right have suggested that contemporary conservatism… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
“The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and to take… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image