Conservatism Quotations

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

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

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

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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

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

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for 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.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

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

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

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

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

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

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

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

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

Conservatism is the politics of reality

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.

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

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