At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
“In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable,… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t. — Lars-Erik Nelson Copy Share Image
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image