Conservative Quotes

The facts of life are conservative.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

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.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

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.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

I've always been a conservative first.

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It's coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it