Quotes About Conservatism

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

Moderation is regarded by the Republican base with suspicion.

Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

The socon [social conservative] Bible seems to have had the references to forgiveness and gentleness expunged somewhere along the line, and Jesus has become the Lord of Nastiness rather than the Prince of Peace."

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.

As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, "Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name

Scranton describing Sen. Robert A. Taft's conservatism as compared to Goldwater's said Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word. He sought to conserve all the human values that have been carried down to us on a long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built, not a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.

Não há virtude nenhuma em se apegar à tradição só pela tradição, como fazem alguns.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

Liberals never, ever should be back in power. Never.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Christianity, like most religious traditions of any vintage, is inherently conservative.

evangelicalism—at its core, at its immovable power center—never was more than fundamentalism with lipstick on.

most evangelicals have remained stuck there.

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.