Conservatism Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image “Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservatism Politics
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism is not… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights. — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image