Conservatism

• Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 -> Traditional
• Edmund Burke 1729-97 -> One-Nation
• Michael Oakeshott 1901-90 -> One-Nation
• Robert Nozick 1938-2002
• Ayn Rand 1905-82 -> New Right/neoliberal
• Hobbes - Human Nature

  'The object of a man's desire is not to only enjoy once + for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.'
• Hobbes State

  'Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.'
• Hobbes Society

  Life is 'nasty, brutish + short.'
• Hobbes Economy

  'It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy.'
• Burke Human Nature

  'Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.'
• Burke State

  'Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will + appetite be placed somewhere.'
• Burke Society

  'Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in every virtue + in all perfection.'
• Burke Economy

  'Economy is a distributive virtue, + consists not in saving but in selection.'
• Nozick Human Nature

  Individuals = 'self-driven by quest for 'self-ownership' allowing them to realise their full potential.'
• Nozick State

  'No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.'
• Nozick Society

  'You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who willbe dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.'
• Nozick Economy

  'The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.'
• Oakeshott Human Nature

  'Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.'
• Oakeshott State

  'For a great state... one which achieves a great intensity in social unity.'
• Oakeshott Society

  'We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited power.'
• Oakeshott Economy

  'Economics is not an attempt to generalise human desires or human behaviour; but to generalise the phenomena of price.'
• Rand Human Nature

  'Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.'
• Rand State

  'The smallest minority in earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be the defenders of minorities.'
• Rand Society

  'Freedom; to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.'
• Rand Economy

  'We are not a capitalist system any longer, we are a mixed economy.'