“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative”
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
“If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”
Laura Schlessinger
“You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative than he was, but if you add it all up, I believe he ranked as the best leader we've had in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, and that's saying a lot.”
David Gergen
“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 degree to which the conservative movement is dissatisfied is very real. Conservatism is at its biggest crossroads since Reagan was nominated in 1980.”
Newt Gingrich
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