Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently… — Theodore J. Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses,… — Pola Negri Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
