Roger Scruton Quotes

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

Conservatism is the politics of reality.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.