Arrangements Quote by Herbert Spencer

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Mark Twain

Conservatism means believing in a strong national defense. Not because we want war, but because we love peace. Because history has taught us a…

— Marco Rubio

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

“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 sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have…

— Eric Hoffer

“By “radical” I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched…

— Matthew Stewart

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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 is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the…

— Rick Perlstein