Conservatism Quote by Clinton Rossiter Download Open image “Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.” — Clinton Rossiter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservatism Revolution Worship
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation. — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful,… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake. — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty…… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
