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Conservative Quotes
"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."
156
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
110
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
68
"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
66
"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
57
"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
56
"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."
49
"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."
48
"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
47
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
47
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
46
"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
46
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
46
"Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you."
43
"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."
41
"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
40
"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
39
"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."
38
"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."
38
"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."
38
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
38
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
37
"I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican."
36
"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."
36
"It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism."
36
"Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11."
36
"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
36
"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
36
"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."
35
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
35
"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
35
"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."
34
"Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans."
34
"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
33
"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."
33
"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."
33
"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
32
"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
32
"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."
32
"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
32
"A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill."
31
"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."
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