Definition of Conservatism

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Definition of Conservatism
	Conservatism The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative. Related Definitions: And, Change, Conduct, Conservative, Disposition, Established, Habit, Is, Mind, Of, Opposition, Or, Preserve, Tendency, The, To, What

Conservatism Quotations

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

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

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Robert Redford

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
Mark Davis

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

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

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Craig Bruce

Conservatism Translations

conservatism in German is Konservatismus
conservatism in Spanish is conservadurismo

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