In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

The highest function of conservatism is to keep what progressiveness has accomplished.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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

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

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

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

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

A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.

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

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

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

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.