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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."
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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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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 fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
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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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"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
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"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
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"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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"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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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 is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism."
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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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"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
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"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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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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"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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"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
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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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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
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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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"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."
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"And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative."
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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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"I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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 with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."
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"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
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