Conservative Quotes - page 4

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. (Reginald Maudling)
Pat Buchanan...was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network.... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced. View quote
Ted Nugent
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. View quote
William F. Buckley
[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. View quote
Jeremy Hardy
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. View quote
Salman Rushdie
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. (Roger Scruton)
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. View quote
Roger Scruton
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. View quote
Frank Dane
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather. View quote
John Howard
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. View quote
Irving Kristol
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport. View quote
Jerry Saltz
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. View quote
Michael Parenti
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it. (Paul Weyrich)
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. View quote
Barack Obama
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. View quote
Barack Obama
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine. View quote
Claudia Schiffer
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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt