Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

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.

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.

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

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

What brought Conservatism into existence was the French Revolution.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

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

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

I'm as conservative as they come.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.