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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in. ↗

— David Brudnoy

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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. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

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Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

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I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time. ↗

— Louise Mensch

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