"Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do."

"I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order."

"Community, authority, tradition, the sacred: these are primary conservative preoccupations in the age, to be seen viv…"

"To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to myste…"

"Conservative ideology...may be defined as a philosophy of imperfection, committed to...the defence of a limited style…"

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

"Edmund Burke made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenien…"

"It could be that today's conservative movement remains in thrall to the same narrative that has defined its attitude …"

"A single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilizatio…"

"What do you do […] when you are not blinded by ideology, and you see the world and all its dramatic characters clearl…"