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I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
— Marco Rubio
Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.
— Rick Perlstein
He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.
— G.K. Chesterton
Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it.
— Margaret Talbot
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
— Agnes Repplier
Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.
— Dennis Miller
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.
— Suzanne La Follette
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
— Carly Fiorina
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.
— George F. Will
Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?
— Oleg Atbashian
He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
— David Halberstam
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
— Jonathan Krohn
Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.
— Alfred Bester
All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.
— Rush Limbaugh
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
— Christina Stead
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
— Tony Campolo
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
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Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.
— George W. Bush
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
— Robert A. Caro
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
— Woodrow Wilson
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
— Mark Twain
A forced kindness deserves no thanks
— Thomas Fuller
He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.
— G.K. Chesterton
What matters is what works.
— Tony Blair
I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.
— Rick Perry
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
— Frank Popoff
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
— Gary Johnson
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
— Revilo P. Oliver
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
— Laurie Simmons
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
— Malachy McCourt
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
— George Monbiot
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
— Eric Hoffer
You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.
— Michael Steele
Conservatism is the negation of Ideology.
— H. Stuart Hughes
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
— Sigmund Freud
Sensible conservatism is better than arrogant and stupid fanaticism.
— Neville Stocks
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
— Joseph Heller
Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.
— Dean Acheson
Conservatism hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that. — Theodore Dreiser
God loves cleanliness.The environment must be kept clean. — Lailah Gifty Akita
At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.
— Marco Rubio
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.
— Richard Corliss
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expect poison from the standing water.
— William Blake
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
— Thorstein Veblen
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
— Alan Hollinghurst
People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
— Bob McDonnell
To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism?
— Julian Barnes
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Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
— John Redwood
He fetishized limits.
— Rick Perlstein
Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.
— Francois Guizot
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism.
— Chris Matthews
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[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
— Miguel De Unamuno
'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.
— Thomas Mallon
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
— Christopher Lasch
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
— Calvin Coolidge
Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
— David Brudnoy
If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
— David Halberstam
I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.
— Travis Culliton
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
— John R.W. Stott
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
— Kristi Noem
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
— Christopher Hitchens
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Conservatism and passive acceptance...They can't think for themselves.Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling.Makes me want to puke.
— Koushun Takami
For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.
— Charlie Munger
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
— Tadashi Yanai
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
— Robertson Davies
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
— Bill Kristol
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
— Anne Hull
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
— Richard Rohr
Conservatism is the politics of reality
— William F. Buckley Jr.