Conservatism Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried
Abraham Lincoln
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
Laura Schlessinger
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
G. K. Chesterton
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth
Jacques Barzun
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Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Dennis Prager
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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
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