#conservatism

Expect poison from the standing water. ↗

— William Blake

#middle-america #society #marriage

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#conservatives #democrats #extremism #liberalism #liberals

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

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

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#dividends #financed #liberalism

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conservatism #distrust #fear #liberalism #people

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

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

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

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

— Bob McDonnell

#call #conservatism #government #i #oriented