Costs Quote by Max Boot

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, then, is not a commitment to limited government and liberty—or a wariness of change, a belief in evolutionary reform, or a politics of…

— Corey Robin

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

— Shelby Steele

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 the negation of Ideology.”

— H. Stuart Hughes

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

— Mark Levin

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is…

— George Haven Putnam

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism will remain…

— George Hawley

It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

— Benjamin Disraeli