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
Cheering Conserving quotations
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.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
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!
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
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.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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.
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
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.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
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.
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.
I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.
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.
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
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.
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
Democracy and liberty are not the same.
Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.