(63 quotes found)
“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals”
Mark Twain
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried”
Abraham Lincoln
“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
“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
“If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”
Laura Schlessinger
“Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism”
Abraham Kuyper
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William E. Gladstone
“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
“A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth”
Jacques Barzun
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