SpeechLoyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.Mark Twain1884★ 7.1
Speech · Political speechThe true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.Franklin D. Roosevelt1936★ 5.3
InterviewThey are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.Margaret Thatcher1987★ 5.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureConservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.Roger ScrutonHow to Be a Conservative · 2014★ 5.1