Allowing Quote by John Redwood

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

— Ronald Reagan

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 only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage…

— Gerald R. Ford

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

— Jesse Helms

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in…

— Mary Matalin

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

— Jonathan Krohn

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

— Shelby Steele

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct.…

— Warren Buffett