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

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.