Quotes About Conservatism

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity.

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.

I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my fellow conservatives—chiefly an uncritical enthusiasm for the market—can in some circumstances undermine the thing that I, as a traditionalist, considered the most important institution to conserve: the family. I

It's amazing to me to see parents who have money, and who think they're conservative, abandon their children to the culture, and then turn around and express shock at what the culture does to their children,

Defender la ortodoxia bíblica del cristianismo en materia sexual se consideraba ahora de una intolerancia inadmisible. Los conservadores cristianos estaban sentenciados. Este ya no era el país de siempre.

Both mainstream liberalism and conservatism are essentially materialist ideologies, and we should not be surprised that both shape a society dedicated to the multiplication of wants and the intensification of desire, not the improvement of character.

I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my fellow conservatives—chiefly an uncritical enthusiasm for the market—can in some circumstances undermine the thing that I, as a traditionalist, considered the most important institution to conserve: the family.

desde que López Obrador fuera candidato a la presidencia en 2006 y 2012, se reveló claramente como un político conservador. Pero su aureola populista confundió a muchos, que lo siguieron tomando como un líder de izquierda, incluso radical, amenazador para la derecha y esperanzador para los progresistas.

Otro sector de la izquierda ha quedado aplastado por el abrumador conservadurismo de López Obrador. Desde hace años he explicado que este líder populista es un conservador que no tiene nada de izquierda. Y hoy se ha vuelto francamente reaccionario. En su partido ya casi no se perciben los signos vitales de la izquierda. Predomina allí un espíritu restaurador que sueña con volver al priismo de los años sesenta y setenta.

Perhaps no defensive structure summarized the truth of siege warfare in the ancient and medieval world as clearly as the walls of Constantinople. The city lived under siege for almost all its life; its defenses reflected the deepest character and history of the place, its mixture of confidence and fatalism, divine inspiration and practical skill, longevity and conservatism.

Graham's first goal was never to make money—it was to avoid losing any.

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political conservatism—has become the last outpost of Big Government paternalism in the United States. In

only 40 percent of liberals told Pew Research they were "proud to be American"—compared with more than 70 percent of conservatives.

Ronald Reagan

The truth is that, for all their talk about social "roots," conservative intellectuals in the postwar era were often rootless men themselves, and the philosophical mystifications in which they enveloped themselves were frequently the only garments that fit them.

Generally speaking, conservatives are opposed to legalization of marijuana whereas liberals are more likely to support it. I go one step further and suggest that doctors prescribe recreational drugs for old people to make their final years enjoyable. What do they have to lose? (Yes, I'm serious. I know it's hard to tell.)

Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about," Nixon replied.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Those who object to what is new are controlled by the love of what is old.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.