Anna-karenina Quote by Leo Tolstoy

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more”

— William Swan Plumer

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

— William E. Gladstone

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that…

— Anonymous

“the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;”

— Karl Polanyi

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

— Dana Loesch

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth