181 Quotes About Conservatism

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.

What matters is what works.

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more

I don't want everybody to vote... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the election quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

When I voted, my equality tumbled into the box with my ballot; they disappeared together.