Conservatives Quote by Rick Perlstein

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our…

— Jon Meacham

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to…

— Iain Duncan Smith

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards…

— Robert Reich

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy men control…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

— Anonymous

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

— John Reid

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

— Sreenivasan

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

— Errol Morris

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

— Leo Rosten

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

— Jonathan Chait

“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On…

— Russell Kirk