“Being Conservative is only another way of being British.”
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907–2001) British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947).
“Being conservative is a way of being skeptic.”
Ser conservador es una forma de ser escéptico. <br class="br"> Interview in Revista Extra (July 1976) http://www.sololiteratura.com/bor/borsellamaborges.htm
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Speech at the University of Pennsylvania http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/02/19/caitlyn-jenner-have-gotten-more-flack-for-being-republican-than-have-for-being/ (February 2016).
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As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 47.
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Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
"At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 27<!-- italics in source -->
Context: As every volunteer testifies, the Peace Corps is more than a program or mission. It is a way of being in the world. This is a conservative notion because it holds dear the ground of one's own being — the culture and customs that gave meaning to a particular life. But it is a liberal notion for respecting the ground revered by others. This double helix in America's DNA may yet be the source of a new political and patriotism that could save us from toxic self-absorption.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (1924)
Context: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
“I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.”
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As quoted in Daily Telegraph, (23 January 2006)
2000s, 2006
Paul Watson (1950) Canadian environmental activist
When asked to respond to questions of whether Sea Shepherd is too radical/extreme. Taken from an interview given to the environmentalist magazine, Resistance: Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement http://www.resistancemagazine.org/
“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) British philosopher
As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153