Cheerful Quote by Irving Kristol

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

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until…

— Thomas Frank

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

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

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism is not…

— Marco Rubio

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

— Robertson Davies

Conscientious conservatism includes responding to the needs and struggles of Americans with a responsible and efficient government and incorporating outside organizations that want to…

— Mercedes Schlapp

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