Buttons Quote by Christopher Lasch

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“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

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.”

— H. Stuart Hughes

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

— Mark Twain

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the…

— Thomas Frank

“[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.”

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“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 accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

— Steve Schmidt

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

— Shelby Steele