Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Conservative Quotes
The highest function of conservatism is to keep what progressiveness has accomplished.
I never dared to be a radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
If you ask a conservative whether he’d like a liberal or conservative amount of freedom, everyone becomes a liberal. If you ask a liberal whether she wants a conservative or liberal amount of government intrusion into our private affairs, everyone becomes a conservative.
Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
In South Africa, we call it apartheid. In Nazi Germany, we’d call it fascism. Here in the United States, we call it conservatism.
He (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) was an aristocrat and a conservative. He did not prefer, he said, a world with a hundred million bores in it to one with ten. The fewer the people who do not contribute beauty or thought, the better. He had little sympathy with the sufferings and failure of mankind, and […]
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution” the old one.
