8 Quotes filtered by Conservatism
The Conservatives conserve what you have got, the Liberals are liberal with it and Labour gives it all away.
Ted Hunt
Category: Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Conservatism
To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.
Michael Oakshott 1962
Category: Conservatives are..., Conservatism, Conservative Thought
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
Tony Blair
Category: Conservatism
The best way of safeguarding the future is by not trying to return to the past.
Ian Gilmour
Category: Conservatism
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Viscount Falkland 22/11/1649
Category: Conservatism
What brought Conservatism into existence was the French Revolution.
Hugh Cecil 1912
Category: Conservatism
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William Ewart Gladstone
Category: Conservatism, Liberalism
