Conservatism famous quotes

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
-- Abraham Kuyper

#Pits #Orthodoxy #Conservatism

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

#Preparation #Redress #Conservatism

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
-- Brian Eno

#Admirer #Force #Conservatism

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.
-- Clinton Rossiter

#Revolution #Worship #Conservatism

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
-- Craig Reucassel

#Liberalism #Conservatism

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Sap #Orthodoxy #Conservatism

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
-- Garrett Hardin

#Heart #Ecology #Conservatism

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
-- George Orwell

#Opposites #Devotion #Conservatism

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.
-- Gerald R. Ford

#Heritage #Enterprise #Conservatism

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
-- Harry Golden

#Destroying #Tolerate #Conservatism

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
-- Joycelyn Elders

#Men #Judging #Conservatism

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
-- Marco Rubio

#Labels #Accepting #Conservatism

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
-- Mark Twain

#Race #Superstitions #Conservatism

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen

#Belief #Value Of Life #Conservatism

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
-- Victoria Woodhull

#Want #Faces #Conservatism

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Thinking #Conservatism

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.
-- Erick Erickson

#Thinking #Conservatism #Session