Conservatism Quote by John Derbyshire

I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world…

— Derek R. Audette

Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice…

— Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

— Jesse Helms

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 therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the…

— Barry Goldwater

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

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to…

— L. Neil Smith

Conservatism, by itself, is not the defeating agent for liberalism today. At one point I was among many who thought it would be. It's…

— Rush Limbaugh

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as…

— Ronald Reagan

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism…

— Derek R. Audette

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

— William E. Gladstone