Conservatism Quotes

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

— Alfred Bester

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

— Rush Limbaugh

Preserve good traditions, but persevere with innovation.

— Tasneem Hameed

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

— John Maynard Keynes

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

— Michael Steele

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

— Cate Blanchett

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

— David Brudnoy

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

— Abby Huntsman

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

— Frank Popoff

“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”

— Joan D. Vinge

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

— Chris Matthews

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

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

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other…

— Anthony Trollope

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People…

— Gerda Lerner

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

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe…

— Bill Moyers

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

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and…

— William Kristol

“The rise of Milo, Trump and the alt-right are not evidence of the return of the conservatism, but instead of the absolute…

— Angela Nagle

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism…

— Marco Rubio

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer…

— Ronald Reagan

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong…

— Naomi Oreskes

American conservatism always has been plagued by an irrational distaste for homosexuality, a robust and righteous hate for the sin that cannot…

— Norah Vincent

Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but…

— Jonah Goldberg

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative,…

— Jacques Barzun

“Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the…

— Cory Bernardi

“Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions,…

— Corey Robin

“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

“Not everyone agrees with these descriptions of Buckley. Other writers on both the left and the right have suggested that contemporary conservatism…

— George Hawley

“where the wisdom of deliberation comes in. It is that deliberation that is one of the principal features of American conservatism as…

— Jeff Flake

“Conservatism is far from what I’m aiming at in proclaiming the establishment of a Sethian left-hand path tradition in the West as…

— Zeena Schreck

“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as…

— Russell Kirk

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“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