Top 400 Conservatism Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
Some may try to argue that conservatism and libertarianism are contradictory perspectives. But I disagree.
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.
Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.
The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.
Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.
The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.
As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.
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.
The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Conservatism solves problems. Libralism blows 'em up.
Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.
I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.
I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.
American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
