90 Conservatives Quotes

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Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot

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

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency — Gifford Pinchot

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. — Gale Norton

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. — John Muir

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world. — Louis Bacon

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. — Ronald Reagan

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. — Pope John Paul II

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. — Gaylord Nelson

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. — Theodore Roosevelt

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. — Jim Fowler

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves. — Friedrich August von Hayek

Short Conservatives 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
  • 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

Conservatives Image Quotes

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. - Tom Allen quote

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. — Tom Allen

Conservatives quote Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh
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.
Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. - Michael Kinsley quote

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. — Michael Kinsley

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. - Paul Weyrich quote

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 quote

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. — Edward Abbey

Conservatives quote Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. A
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.
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court. - Julius Erving quote

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court. — Julius Erving

Ocean Conservation Quotes

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. — Sylvia Earle

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. — Alain Bombard

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. — Fabien Cousteau

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself. — Rachel Carson

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something. — Sylvia Earle

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. — William J. Clinton

Nature Conservation Quotes

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss

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

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights. — Mark Levin

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them. — Wendell Berry

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring. — Douglas Malloch

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More Conservatives 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

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

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

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

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

What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. — John Diefenbaker

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. — John Stuart Mill

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries. — Warren W. Wiersbe

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

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

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

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

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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