Quotes About Conservatism

Conservatism is founded on the principle of equality of opportunity, not result.

I'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party.

If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.

I am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

While liberal, coastal white girls may constitute the most conspicuous purveyors of pumpkin spice, the flavor's cultural connotations and the strong opinions they elicit reveal the drink's profound conservatism.

Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that first-person plural in being.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

men live peacefully as long as their old way of life is maintained and there is no change in customs.

Habit and tradition often render change undesirable.

As a country, we should be moving forward, but instead conservative lawmakers keep dragging us back.

I don't think the alt-right would call me alt-right. They call me alt-lite, usually. I just consider myself a nationalist or a traditionalist.

As I remember, the only newspaper that reported my return with any degree of conservatism was the New York Times, which carried a brief column containing a few pertinent facts and lived up to its motto: All the news that's fit to print.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.

One indictment of the religious right is not that it is heartless – a tautology in any case – but that is brainless.

No, inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

There's no such thing as a conservative hero.' He was wise, that old man.

inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them.

What does the Tao value above all else?" "Compassion? Those other two jewel things?" "No, inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.