It’s really weird when conservatives enjoin us to all have a national discussion about blowjobs, but don’t want the same concerning race.
Conservative Quotes
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.
Conservatives are much like paleontologists. They dig around in prehistoric garbage heaps and anything they discover, they define as a new find.
I remember reading, at an early age, Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. The hero of that book is Mr. Phileas Fogg, a Frenchman’s notion of an English Gentleman: taciturn, solitary, obsessively punctual, living his life according to a strict routine – in short, anal-retentive in the extreme. At the beginning of the […]
A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. (On Robert Peel’s government)
It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism – an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
An immigrant society cannot be conservative in its temperment. Significance belongs not to the achievement of today but to the perspectives which today’s experience opens up for tomorrow’s expansion. It is in the construction of new communities that men achieve their highest sense of creativity.
