Quotes About Conservatism

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

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

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

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

Coolidge, in those days and always, distrusted reformers.

every civilization reaches a still point. The progressives can't go forward, and the conservatives can't go back. One demands continual advance, the other longs for yesterday.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

National Review… stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

One good way to understand what conservatism is really about is to use the acronym FLINT to remember five core concepts: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, and Traditional values. These five principles are a good summary of conservative thought in America today.

Self-sufficiency is the core principle of conservatism. At least my conservatism." "Survival of the fittest? And yet your people want creationism taught in the schools.