You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party. — William Kristol 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
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for… — Thomas Frank 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
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the… — Herbert Spencer 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
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university… — Hugh Hefner 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
“Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“the growing materialism of our societies. This materialism informs political discourse at every level, making wealth and its distribution the only issue… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
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