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Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to the way things were. Political science often credits the Irish politician Edmund Burke with many of the ideas now called conservative.Warning: template has been deprecated.

General

Democracy in America, 1840 by Alexis de Tocqueville
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- Volume 2 IA
Conservatism: Its Principle, Policy, and Practice: a reply to Mr. Gladstones speech at Wigan, 23rd October, 1868 by Alexander Lindsay IA
"Radicalism, Conservatism, and the Transition of Institutions" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (December 1873).
The Conservatism of the Future: being a letter addressed to Lord Randolph Churchill, M.P., 1884 by J. J. Coxhead IA
Present-day Conservatism and Liberalism Within Biblical Lines, 1911 by James Glentworth Butler IA
Conservatism, 1912 by Hugh Cecil IA
- Lord Hugh Cecil's "Conservatism", 1913 by Charlie Dunbar Broad

History

Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 by Edmund Burke (British Member of Parliament, Whig) the founding philosophic opus of Conservatism

United Kingdom

A History of Toryism, 1886 by Thomas Edward Kebbel IA
The Early History of the Tories, 1908 by Clement Boulton Roylance Kent IA
A History of the Tory Party, 1923 by Maurice Henry Woods IA

United States

History of the Republican Party, 1884 by Frank Abial Flower IA
The Republican Party; Its History, Principles, and Policies, 1888 by John Davis Long IA
The Republican Party (Curtis), 1904 by Francis Curtis
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The Formation of the Republican Party as a National Political Organization, 1911 by Gordon Saul Philip Kleeberg IA
The Republican Party, 1920 by Willis Fletcher Johnson and Ray Burdick Smith

Speeches

Benjamin Disraeli

Conservative Principles, 3 April 1872 by Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister)

John McCain

Address to the Conservative Political Action Congress, February 7, 2008 by John McCain (United States Senator)
Common Sense Conservatism, by John McCain (United States Senator)

Ron Paul

Neo-CONNED, 10 July 2003 by Ron Paul (United States Congressman)

Ronald Reagan

Political parties

British Conservative Party

The Tamworth Manifesto, 1834 by Robert Peel (British Prime Minister) considered by historians to be the basic statement of the beliefs of the new Conservative Party. The foundation of "One Nation Toryism".
Tory Democracy, 1911 by J. M. Kennedy IA
Tory Democracy, 1918 by Henry Cavendish Bentinck IA

United States Republican Party

2007 Republican Debate, October 21, 2007 with Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, and Brit Hume

Criticism

The Conservative, 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reference

"Conservative Party," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911). (British party)