Zitat des Tages über Konservatismus / Conservatism:
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
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.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and the so-called Rush Babies.
It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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.
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.
Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.