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Conservative Quotes
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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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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"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
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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 was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
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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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"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
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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."
19
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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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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"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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"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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"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
16
"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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"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
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"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."
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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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"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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"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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"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 always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
15
"Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era."
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"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
14
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
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"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
14
"If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative."
14
"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
14
"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
14
"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
14
"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
14
"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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"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."
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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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"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 a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
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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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"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."
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"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
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"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."
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