Mark Davis Quotes

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Conservatism

• I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Trump
  • ERA
  • Conservatism

• As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Earth
  • Case
  • Analogy

• I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Brand
  • Republicanism

• One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment toward conservatism.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Abortion
  • Conservatism

• A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

  

  Damian Green
  • People
  • Country
  • Problem

• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Abuse

• There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

  

  Michelle Moran
  • Natural
  • Nations
  • Sovereignty

• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  

  Mohammed Omar
  • Middle
  • Conservatism
  • Moderates

• We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Friendship

• Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Way
  • Commerce
  • Conventions

• Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Safety

• To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Secret
  • Actions
  • Plans

• P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Belief

• It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Focus
  • Painful

• The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Truth
  • Church

• It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

  

  Mark Davis
  • Conservatism
  • Republicanism