Quotes About Conservatism

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Es el orgasmo femenino, no el masculino, el que corre con los riesgos y costes del embarazo, el parto y la lactancia. Sin duda, esto tiene algo que ver con la tendencia de las mujeres a ser más conservadoras, desde el punto de vista sexual, que los hombres.

we would, as I say, be in deep kimshee."36 The limited reach of the Manhattan Declaration was an unwelcome reminder to conservatives that the Republican Party remained the only viable—and unreliable—political instrument for their ideas.

He espoused a Burkean conservatism of adaptation to changing circumstances. "A conservative in government expects such changes in society as time goes by," he wrote in The Conservative Soul (2006). "His job is to accommodate them to existing institutions." But the Right no longer widely practiced this sort of institutionalism.

Populism is the radical opposite of conservatism,

there are other dangers to conservatism and to the civilization conservatives are defending than the liberal Establishment, and that to fight liberalism without guarding against these dangers runs the risk of ending in a situation as bad as or worse than our present one.

Though their policies may have shared the same spirit, there were serious differences between Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. Coolidge was a model of reticence and comportment. Trump was not. Coolidge stood for the "American" way of doing things and presided over a "normal" government in a "normal" time. Trump stood outside the system, even during the years in which he was president. He and his supporters were not preserving the status quo.

The proper question for conservatives: What do you seek to conserve?" George Will wrote in The Conservative Sensibility (2019). "The proper answer is concise but deceptively simple: We seek to conserve the American Founding.

One cannot be an American patriot without reverence for the nation's enabling documents. One cannot be an American conservative without regard for the American tradition of liberty those charters inaugurated.

Compassionate conservatism recognized the success of Bill Clinton in portraying the Republicans as enemies of education, Medicare, and the environment. It was an attempt to take back the moral high ground from the Democrats (there was no need to take it back from Clinton).

In every period, and in every country, there have always been two parties: the reactionary and the progressive.

The modern conservative movement was inspired by Barry Goldwater's canonical text from 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative.

Cruz may not be everyone's favorite drinking buddy but America needs a designated driver and by God, Cruz will take America to a safe harbor.

Underpromise and Overdeliver Whether you and your boss agree on expectations, try to bias yourself somewhat toward underpromising achievements and overdelivering results. This strategy contributes to building credibility. Consider how your organization's capacity for change might affect your ability to deliver on the promises you make. Be conservative in what you promise. If you deliver more, you will delight your boss.

His answer foreshadowed the rise of a new conservative populism built around the politics of patriotism and social identity rather than economic advantage and class division. "Because, you see, I love my country. And I think my country is in danger.

We attribute the problems of our children to liberalism, conservatism, godlessness, godfulness, evolutionism, creationism-anything that seems to make sense, except the quiet notion that contemporary parenting is a complex set of learned skills, many of which seem counterintuitive to us. It's not religion and it sure ain't politics. And it can be learned from good and bad sources, so we must constantly question and upgrade our learning.