Conservative Quote by Edward Abbey

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

— Edward Abbey

“One difficulty we face today is the fact that the Republicrat faction that portrays itself as ‘conservative’ is anything but. While the term ‘neoconservative’…

— Joseph Befumo

“Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.”

— H. Stuart Hughes

The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real…

— Ross Douthat

“The one-third of America that identifies as “conservative” will be isolated even more profoundly within an information ghetto of deception and incitement.”

— David Frum

“You say you are conservative—eminently conservative—while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards…

— Robert Reich

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

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

— George P. Shultz

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

— Abraham Lincoln

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is…

— George Haven Putnam