Quotes About Conservatism

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit

The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be. To wish or to work for something that has not yet been before is crime or madness. The miracle of creation—and creation is always a miracle—is outside of his range of emotional experience.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But even then, their control of the Republican Party was not a given.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.

Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print.

Conservatives by and large believe in the corrective power of the free market above all. If we don't like how private companies are doing business, we should just start our own to compete, right?

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.

The more conservative the district, the more conservative the member should be.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.