“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone
“Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative”
“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
