Conservatism Quote by William E. Gladstone

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the…

— Clinton Rossiter

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

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

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading…

— Maurice Cowling

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

— John Derbyshire

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism…

— Derek R. Audette

“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

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

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the…

— Barry Goldwater

The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

— Ronald Reagan