The conservative… a man who thinks nothing new ought to be adopted for the first time.
Conservative Quotes
I am a bleeding-heart conservative.
Why are conservatives opposed to government funding of art, music, public broadcasting and so forth? It’s not really because of the dirty pictures. If my tax dollars are going to be spent by a nitwit in SoHo, I might as well get some smut out of it. The problem is that taxes are taken by […]
No man can be a conservative until he has something to lose.
I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
The Tory Party used always to be known as “the stupid party”. But when Tories grow intelligent it is time to feel for your watch and count your small change.
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.
Liberalism and conservatism have not just genetic roots, of course, but historical and intellectual ones. The two political philosophies were articulated in the eighteenth century in terms that would be familiar to readers of the editorial pages today, and their foundations can be traced back to the political controversies of ancient Greece. During the past […]
It’s great that we’ve got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
