Conservatism Quotes

You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative than he was, but if you add it all up, I believe he ranked as the best leader we've had in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, and that's saying a lot. - David Gergen

Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes. - Evan Thomas

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. - Dale E Turner

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. - Thomas Sowell

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried. - Abraham Lincoln

What I'm hearing right now from the governor is waffling on the one issue that can clearly explain compassionate conservatism... If compassionate conservative means anything, it has to mean do anything we can to stop the loss of 1.5 million unborn children every year. - Gary Bauer

We need some compassionate conservatism. - Mark Viator

We must invent governing conservatism. - Newt Gingrich

We believe this update is a combination of management's typical conservatism and sales sluggishness from the unusually warm weather. - Bill Dreher

To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. - Michael Oakeshott