181 Quotes About Conservatism

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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

Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for any democracy.

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

The problem with being conservative: 99% of your victories consist of saying "no" to the ideas that idiots want to adopt.

I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty.