The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused in a proactive way on America's racial-caste legacy. This represents a fundamental moral crisis of modern American conservatism.... American conservatives typically ignored the authoritarian and violent racial-caste practices and values arrayed against black Americans in southern states where the vast majority of blacks live. On the other hand, American conservatives have, throughout this century, often embraced freedom movements elsewhere in the world --in Europe, Latin America, East Asia-- but always firmly resisting a proactive embrace of the black American civil rights movement as a bona fide freedom movement fully worthy of their support. So it is in the shadow of this dismal record of mainstream American conservatism vis-a-vis black Americans' long and arduous quest for equality of status that new black conservatives have emerged.