Quotes About Conservatism

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Oklahoma's the Bible Belt.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

Bagi generasi muda, perubahan itu terlalu lambat Bagi kaum tradisionalis tua, perubahan itu menghujat

For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

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.

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.

The division of members into Tories or Whigs had by 1761 lost nearly all significance; the real division was between supporters and opponents of the current "government," or ministry, or of the king. By and large the Tories protected the landed interest; the Whigs were willing now and then to consider the desires of the business class; otherwise both Tories and Whigs were equally conservative. Neither party legislated for the benefit of the masses.

The politics of the Essays preach a conservatism natural in one who aspired to rule. Bacon wants a strong central power. Monarchy is the best form of government; and usually the efficiency of a state varies with the concentration of power.

Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment have earned universal recognition.

National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It was against this perceived threat to older ways of being and thinking that a fear-ridden patrician and also a populist crusade conservatism "rose" behind the coup of 17–18 July 1936.

patrician conservatism, which included much of the Spanish officer corps, was by the early months of 1936 increasingly linked up to the self-proclaimed fascist right,

emergent populist conservatism.

White, caught up in this conservative, antiquarian mood, walked with his hawk and wrote of ghosts, of starry Orion naked and resplendent in the English sky, of all the imaginary lines men and time had drawn upon the landscape. By the fire, his hawk by his side, he brooded on the fate of nations.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more reasonable, but because it suited his manner of life better.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.