Conservatism Quotes

208 quotes by 163 authors

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. — Jill Lepore
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. — Craig Reucassel
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
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom. — Ron Paul
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and… — Christopher Hibbert
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism… — Thomas Merton
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. — Ronald Reagan
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring,… — Daisaku Ikeda
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life… — Aron Ralston
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated… — Unknown Author
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. — Thomas Frank
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols,… — William Howard Taft
It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted… — Michael Spencer
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal. — John Maynard Keynes
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that… — Russell Kirk
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly… — Russell Kirk
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green… — Newt Gingrich
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those… — Yvon Chouinard
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. — Abraham Kuyper

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