Conservatism Quotes

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.