Conservatism Quotes · Page 5

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

— Christina Stead

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

— Roger Scruton

“The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.”

— Jackson Lears

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

— Thomas Mallon

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it…

— Jack McDevitt

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

— Anne Hull

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

— Jill Lepore

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

— Roger Scruton

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatism has never been about fear or about anger. Not at its best. Do people have a right to be fearful of…

— Marco Rubio

“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of…

— Thomas Frank

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct…

— Paul Keating

“Populism is not conservatism, which by definition entails resistance to public whims. Conservatives who seek to use populism for their own ends…

— Bret Stephens

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the…

— Evan Davis

Republicans can win if they adopt a message and promote policies of conscientious conservatism where they lay out a vision of how…

— Mercedes Schlapp

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror…

— Charles Hazlewood

Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I…

— Marco Rubio

Liberalism, conservatism, that's irrelevant stuff to Trump. He looks at things in an entirely different way. This is a reason why we,…

— Rush Limbaugh

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,…

— David Limbaugh

“The Enlightened spirit is not like some safe cracker whose ear is pressed to the metal while his fingers imperceptibly turn a…

— Joshua Gibbs

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging…

— Horace Mann

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of…

— Russell Kirk

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

— Mark Twain

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

— Hillary Clinton

“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.”

— Eric Hoffer

Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find…

— Roger Scruton

“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he…

— William Swan Plumer

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

— Christopher Lasch

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

— Erick Erickson

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

— Jonathan Krohn

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs…

— Charlie Munger

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

— Chris Hayes

I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control and college loans. It's not because I'm a conservative, it's because…

— John Hawkins

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it…

— Shelby Steele

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

— Marco Rubio