Conservative Quotes

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

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.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

We should create law based on the God of the Bible.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.