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  • I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles that Donald Trump is talking about have nothing to do with conservatism, nothing to do with keeping America strong.

    Strong   Believe   Heart  
    "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.
  • Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

    Issues   People   Voting  
  • Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  • The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

    Views   Politics   Next  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in the same boat in a stormy sea and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." I think that's profoundly true, yet it's difficult to have civil dialogue right now with other Christians, so how can we possibly talk to "all the nations"?

    Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com
  • A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

  • Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

  • Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

    Lazy   Mind   Welcome  
    Sigmund Freud (2013). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners By Sigmund Freud”, BookRix
  • In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

    Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.67, Basic Books
  • Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

    "Rubio: 'Conservatism Is About Empowering People To Catch Up'". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 24, 2011.
  • Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date.

    Philosophy   Men   Law  
    "The Conscience of a Conservative". Book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell, 1960.
  • When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

    Party   Way   Arguing  
    "GOP Struggles for Salvation". Austin American-Statesman, November 23, 2008.
  • [Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

    "Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.
  • This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.

    War   Fighting   Ideas  
    Source: www.ballerstatus.com
  • You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

    Two   Unions   Married  
    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

    "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.
  • Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

    "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" by William Kristol, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.
  • What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books
  • Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

    Interview with Margaret Wappler, www.believermag.com. August, 2004.
  • Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.

    Jobs   Nbc   Guy  
    "Former Breitbart Editor Ben Shapiro: Charges Absolutely Validate Michelle Fields' Allegations" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 29, 2016.
  • The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  • Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

    Labels   Machines   Way  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Conservatism, I believe, happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right and wrong, people that are accepting responsibility for themselves. Conservatism is what happens when you're a good citizen.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

    Mars   Eras   Flaws  
  • There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

    Parent   India   Use  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing
  • Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

  • People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

    Interview witn Andy Barr, www.politico.com. February 7, 2011.
  • 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 (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.438, Transaction Publishers
  • Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

    Running   Regret   Past  
    "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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