Clinton Rossiter

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

— Clinton Rossiter

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be…

— Clinton Rossiter

The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of…

— Clinton Rossiter

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

— Clinton Rossiter

The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say…

— Clinton Rossiter

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The…

— Clinton Rossiter

A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be…

— Clinton Rossiter

An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level…

— Clinton Rossiter

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great…

— Clinton Rossiter

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a…

— Clinton Rossiter

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and…

— Clinton Rossiter

Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government…

— Clinton Rossiter

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

— Clinton Rossiter