All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things aloneyouleavethemastheyare.But youdonot.If you leaveathing alone you leave ittoa torrent ofchange.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Orthodoxy, ch.7.

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.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Coningsby, bk.2, ch.5.

It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatismöan unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Coningsby, bk.3, ch.5.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

-Lincoln, Abraham
  Speech, NewYork, 27 Feb.

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

-Trollope, Anthony
  CanYou Forgive Her?, ch.24.