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The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

— Ron Chernow

I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn't know that was the name. I didn't know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on…

— Candace Owens

“I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my fellow conservatives—chiefly…

— Rod Dreher

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

— Anonymous

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

— David Frum

The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Modern conservatism was forged in the crucible of the 1970s inflation crisis, and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash many conservatives were…

— Ross Douthat

“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of…

— Thomas Frank

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more…

— Ted Nordhaus

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