Clear Quote by Damian Green

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

— George Will

Conservatism to me is limited government, liberty and sticking to the Constitution and realizing that government is not the solution to almost anything, that…

— Katie Pavlich

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and…

— Emma Goldman

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is…

— Shelby Steele

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage…

— Gerald R. Ford

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

— Ludwig von Mises

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

— Ronald Reagan

“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