Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.
The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
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.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message. . . is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
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.
