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Conservative Quotes
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
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"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
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"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
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"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
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"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."
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"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
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"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
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"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
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"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
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"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
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"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
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"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
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"Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans."
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"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."
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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
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"Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you."
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"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
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"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
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"I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican."
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"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."
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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
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"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."
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"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
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"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed."
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"Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general."
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"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."
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"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
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"And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue."
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"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
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"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
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"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."
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"In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute."
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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
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