The very word conservative means that we conserve all that is good, that we reject all that is bad, and we must use our intelligence, our intellect, our training for the purpose of determining what we shall reject and what we shall conserve and retain.

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature ... and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.