Conservatism Quotes - Page 4

• You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fighting, Radical

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.

  Gerald Horne

  Light, America, Veins

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

  William Kristol

  Weakness, Proud, Liberalism

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• The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

  Harry Golden

  Destroying, Tolerate

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• .. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .

  E. J. Dionne

  Intellectual, Battle, Favors

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• Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• ‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Government, Differences

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• What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

  Sarah Palin

  Establishment, Knows, Endorsing

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

  John Redwood

  Economics, Owners, Equity

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• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

  Mary Matalin

  Self, Numbers, People

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• There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.

  David Limbaugh

  Strong, War, Humility

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• What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Radicalism, Kind, Highest

  Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books

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• The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

  Jack McDevitt

  People, Want, Problem

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.317, Penguin

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• The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

  Russell Kirk

  Religious, Character, Order

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.472, Regnery Publishing

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• Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

  George W. Bush

  Government, People, Answers

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• I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I mean liberalism's easy. Liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice. It's not even a choice. Liberalism is just, you feel it. And there's nothing hard about it at all. You don't even have to do anything. You just have to notice suffering and talk about how it. And you're a great, big-hearted, compassionate person.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Choices, Intellectual

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

  Bob McDonnell

  Government, People, Want

  Interview witn Andy Barr, www.politico.com. February 7, 2011.

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• There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Facts, Argument, Certain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.174, Library of America

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• In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Essence, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

  Norman Mailer

  Promise, Guilt, Nausea

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Way, Size

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Conservatism, by itself, is not the defeating agent for liberalism today. At one point I was among many who thought it would be. It's too bifurcated. It's too disjointed. It's too fractured, too un-unified, disunified, whatever, to be a formative opposition force. But there are still millions of people that want nothing to do with what liberalism and the Democrats stand for.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Today, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Stupidity, President

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• The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Darkness, Movement, Return

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