Synonyms for conservatism
kənˈsɜr vəˌtɪz əmcon·ser·vatism

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1. conservatism, conservativismnoun

   a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes

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   conservativism

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1. List of paraphrases for "conservatism":

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1. Gary Johnson:

   It should be [a conservative issue], this is your life and don't you have the freedom to do what you want to do with your life. But you also have the responsibility that your actions don't mess with my life. Isn't that kind of fundamentally conservatism, period?

2. John Gibbs:

   When I got to Stanford, I got to know some conservatives there through the Stanford Review, having actual conservative friends in the flesh — which I didn't have in high school, I just kind of had the reading — made a big difference. Being able to have people I could be friends with who could sharpen me and my conservatism. So yeah, that was it — discovering Thomas Sowell in high school and continuing to build on the ideas at Stanford through the friends that I had.

3. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   I give us the best chance to take our message to people that haven't voted for us in the past -- and convince them that conservatism is better for them and better for America, so I think more and more people began to realize that as we got closer to voting day.

4. Dr. Dale E. Turner:

   Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

5. Grigorij Meseznikov:

   The social conservatism that is promoted in today's Russia, that nourishment of homophobic discourse, encourages some of the conservative activists.