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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.


Bernadette Devlin


#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

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


#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.


J. C. Watts


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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.


Victoria Woodhull


#any #centered #compel #conservatism #decency

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.


Garrett Hardin


#continuity #ecology #heart #serves

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.


Craig Bruce


#dividends #financed #liberalism

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


#based #change #conservatism #idea #leave

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.


Jim Wallis


#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.


Thomas Frank


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


William E. Gladstone


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