Conservatism Quotes

208 Conservatism quotes by 163 unique authors

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t. — Unknown Author
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of… — Ted Cruz
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. — Romola Garai
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also… — John Howard
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and… — Vladimir Putin
Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing… — Leonard Lance
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. — Anne Hull
When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the… — Ben Shapiro
Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and… — Ben Shapiro
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of… — Joe Wurzelbacher
There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology… — Dennis Prager
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics,… — Jill Lepore
There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea… — Charles Hazlewood
Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism. — Bob Ehrlich
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. — Cate Blanchett
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction,… — Rick Perlstein
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip. — Rick Perlstein
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think… — Charles M. Blow
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it… — George Haven Putnam
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent… — Thomas Frank
It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for… — Ronald Reagan
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for… — Dale E. Turner
Preserve good traditions, but persevere with innovation. — Tasneem Hameed

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