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

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

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

"The conservative is a person who considers very closely every chance, even the longest, of "throwing out the baby wit…"

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

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

"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…"

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