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.
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to read more
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
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean read more
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But read more
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.
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that read more
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
