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“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that technique to…

— Russell Kirk

“Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.”

— H. Stuart Hughes

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

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

“Conservatism solves problems libralism blows em up.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“You can become radicalized in the sense that you come to believe, firmly, a position that is within the political mainstream—for example, that your…

— Cass R. Sunstein

“Our most radical changes in perspective often happen at the tail end of our worst moments.”

— Mark Manson

“Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.”

— Rick Perlstein

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Muller asserted that modern conservatism is really about creating the best possible society, the one that brings about the greatest happiness given local circumstances.”

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment…

— William F. Buckley Jr