Air Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatism is the new counterculture.

— Gavin McInnes

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

— Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have…

— Eric Hoffer

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

— Robertson Davies

“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

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then…

— Rick Perlstein

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

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

— Dana Loesch