“It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing”
Benjamin Disraeli
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
Plato
“"The government is like a bad habit that relies on making others broke to support its reckless commodities. Just as an addict must, it's high time the government hit rock bottom"”
Deborah Simpson
“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals”
Mark Twain
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
Ronald Reagan
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried”
Abraham Lincoln
