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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Author:
Iain Smith
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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Author:
Robert Redford
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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Author:
George Putnam
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
Author:
Kristi Noem
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Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Author:
Pola Negri
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Author:
Abraham Kuyper
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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.
Author:
Jonathan Krohn
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I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.
Author:
Jonathan Krohn
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Author:
Jesse Helms
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Author:
William Gladstone
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There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Author:
Henry George
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
Author:
Mark Davis
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
Author:
David Brudnoy
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Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Author:
Craig Bruce
