A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
保守派
Conservatives
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
我支持同性婚姻。我支持同性婚姻，因为我相信保守派支持承诺制度。
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
最保守的观点是，秩序真的很难实现。它真的很珍贵，很容易失去。
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
春天和夏天，我们是改革者;在秋天和冬天，我们站在老;早上是改革者，晚上是服务器。
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
傻瓜有两种:一种说:“这是旧的，所以是好的。”另一个说:“这是新的，所以更好。”
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
进步主义者的工作就是不断犯错。保守派的职责是防止错误被纠正。
Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
保守主义者:迷恋现存罪恶的政治家，与自由主义者不同，自由主义者希望用其他罪恶取而代之。
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
通过“激进”，我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”，一个根本不愿去的人。
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.
考虑到深刻的社会变革，保守主义者总是期待灾难，而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
新政治的希望不在于形成左翼对右翼的回应——而在于拒绝传统的政治类别。
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
我们必须从各个方面与保守派斗争，不仅是右翼，还有不想改变任何事情的左翼保守派。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.
保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
自由主义是人民的信任，经过审慎的磨炼;保守主义，对人的不信任，被恐惧所调和。
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
每个社会都尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。
And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
我是一个保守主义者。有时候，保守派忘记了我们应该节约，节约，高效。此外，我们对其他能源的依赖正使我们的国家变得不独立，变得非常脆弱。所以这是一个安全问题。
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
社会保守派非常注重加强家庭，我认为他们这样做是正确的。左派最大的盲点之一就是不愿意说婚姻对孩子很重要。
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
保守主义者不一定愚蠢，但大多数愚蠢的人都是保守主义者。