Active Quote by Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted,…

— John Derbyshire

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the…

— Dennis Prager

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the…

— Thomas Frank

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

I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world…

— Derek R. Audette

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

Conservatism, by itself, is not the defeating agent for liberalism today. At one point I was among many who thought it would be. It's…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free…

— Shelby Steele

I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I mean liberalism's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

— Mark Twain

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr