Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. — Mort Sahl
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state. — Nikolai Berdyaev
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. — Gunnar Myrdal
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles. — Mark Levin
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. — Mark Levin
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost. — John Podhoretz
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. — Winston Churchill
Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. — Michael Kinsley
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man. — Augustus
Short Conservative Quotes
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. — George Washington
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. — Mike Pence
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe — Kenneth Clarke
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot
Conservative Image Quotes
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. — Tom Allen
Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. — Paul Weyrich
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. — Edward Abbey
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court. — Julius Erving
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they have lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
Conservative Political Quotes
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century. — Aneurin Bevan
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis de Tocqueville
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. — John Diefenbaker
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. — Bradley Whitford
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. — George W. Bush
Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not. — Marco Rubio
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. — Joseph Sobran
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. — Russell Kirk
Conservative Party Quotes
I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party. — Rishi Sunak
I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts. — William J. Clinton
The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews. — Jerry Falwell
I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans. — Liz Truss
If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party. — Nicola Sturgeon
Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote. — Linda McQuaig
I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy. — Richard Posner
[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed. — Theresa May
Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country. — Theresa May
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Conservative Values Quotes
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. — Paul Keating
The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism. — Tom Fitton
We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action. — Priti Patel
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. — Aldo Leopold
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead. — Shelby Steele
I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome. — Nikki Haley
Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom. — Mitt Romney
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. — Iain Duncan Smith
You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care. — Ron Paul
Anti Conservative Quotes
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. — Marco Rubio
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. — George Carlin
Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'. — Harry S. Truman
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind. — George Washington
What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I'm not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they're anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they're anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they're super Christian, they're a witch. — Bill Maher
I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them. — Harry S. Truman
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. — Mark Twain
Good Conservative Quotes
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries. — Warren W. Wiersbe
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith. — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty. — Stanley Morison
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law. — Gary Bauer
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. — Margaret Thatcher
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. — B. H. Liddell Hart
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me. — James David Vance
I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy. — Tucker Carlson
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. — Mitt Romney
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. — George Orwell
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included. — Pola Negri
Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too. — Tucker Carlson
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. — Oliver Stone
Great Conservative Quotes
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing. — Danica Patrick
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. — Barry Goldwater
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. — Barry Goldwater
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy. — Patanjali
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama. — Irving Babbitt
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. — Danica Patrick
Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race. — Gerry Lindgren
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner
Conservator Quotes
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. — Sojourner Truth
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. — David Attenborough
What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! — Alex Jones
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. — John Stuart Mill
It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand. — Mike Royko
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong. — Walter E. Williams
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it. — Sigurd F. Olson
Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name. — Merle Haggard
The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane Fonda. You know, if you are slightly conservative or even libertarian points of view, especially if you are persuasive and charismatic and funny and effective, you will get called the most appalling things. — Milo Yiannopoulos
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle
Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. — George W. Bush
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual. — Walter E. Williams
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it. — Ben Feldman
It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years. — Rishi Sunak
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process. — Barry Goldwater
If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been improved to the point where you would hope to conserve a structure rather than alter it. At that point, you become a conservative. — Bret Weinstein
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