Antiquity Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conservatism, then, is not a commitment to limited government and liberty—or a wariness of change, a belief in evolutionary reform, or a politics of…

— Corey Robin

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

— Woodrow Wilson

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not…

— Bill Moyers

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

— John Maynard Keynes

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

— Thorstein Veblen