Assorted Quote by Timothy West

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative…

— Christopher Hitchens

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that…

— Anonymous

“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed…

— P. J. O'Rourke

During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.

— Peter Hitchens

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

— Dwight Macdonald

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in…

— Gordon Brown

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.

— Charlie Sykes

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism…

— Joseph Sobran