All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom. — Kane Copy Share Image
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative. — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman. — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,—… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about… — Edward Snowden 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
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will… — Warren Buffett 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
“By its largely rhetorical devotion to the free market and its actual policies of constructing a permanent war economy, conservatism helps to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“What is the object of human life? The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The Bannon they witness in the White House is a recognizable extension of the teenage go-getter they knew in Richmond, and his… — Joshua Green 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
“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have… — Gary Taubes 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