Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.