Quotes about Conservatism

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Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it — Johann Schiller
A forced kindness deserves no thanks — Thomas Fuller
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. — Paul Valéry
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but wi — Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. — Mark Twain
Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism — John W. Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience
There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the va — David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, — Paul Krugman
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybod — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"? — Oleg Atbashian
I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want — Alison Larkin, The English American
When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's — Robert B. Reich
But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishin — David Frum
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that — Benjamin Wiker
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of — Noam Chomsky, The Culture of Terrorism
I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fasc — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who fac — Peter Beinart
The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which seems to mean that you m — Chadwick Moore