Conservatism Quotes

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, ...

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old...

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

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argumen...

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whate...

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the mo...

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

If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conse...

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit an...

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large num...

The conventional public opposition of 'liberal' and 'conservative' is, here as elsewhere, perfectly ...

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

Expect poison from the standing water.

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his idea...

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, ev...

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary soc...

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time...

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other ...

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" w...

An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident ...

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepare...

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from...

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all co...

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should...