Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I didn’t wake up this morning worrying about what protest color I’d wear, or what the world would do without me because… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown” — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm not denying I've espoused and promoted conservatism, because conservatism's the alternative. And conservatism works every time it's tried. That's the problem.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Conservatism has never been about fear or about anger. Not at its best. Do people have a right to be fearful of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
