Quote by Irving Kristol

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”

— Ronald Reagan

“There is no conservatism that will stand out against self-interest.”

— Homer B. Hulbert

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

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.”

— Rick Perlstein

“Conservatism is the cousin of cowardice.”

— J.R. Ward

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

— Dana Loesch

“A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.”

— Anonymous

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that…

— Naomi Klein

“I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my fellow conservatives—chiefly…

— Rod Dreher

“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.”

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

“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