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Conservatism is the politics of reality

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

— Shelby Steele

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct.…

— Warren Buffett

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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 aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Roger Scruton

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

— Thorstein Veblen