Conservative Quotes - page 2

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. (Rudy Giuliani)
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. View quote
Gough Whitlam
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. View quote
Leo Rosten
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. View quote
Kin Hubbard
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. View quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. View quote
Edward Abbey
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
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)
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed. View quote
Christopher Lasch
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. View quote
Mike Pence
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. View quote
Ashley Scott
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. View quote
Theodore White
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option. View quote
Gordon Brown
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. View quote
Robin Lane Fox
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. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time. (Thomas Fuller)
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. View quote
William James
The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life. View quote
John Danforth
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society. View quote
Edward Heath
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. View quote
Ralph Steadman