Aggressive Quote by Tom Bethell

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

— Craig Shirley

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

— Bernard Crick

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted…

— Mike Pence

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is…

— George Haven Putnam

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted…

— Poul Henningsen

The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem…

— Marco Rubio

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

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

— Peter Hitchens

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

— Italo Calvino

Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington,…

— Tony Campolo

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

— George Orwell

“The leading virtue of conservative politics as I see it is the preference for procedure over ideological programs. Liberals tend to believe that government…

— Roger Scruton