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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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"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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"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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"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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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
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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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"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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"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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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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"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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"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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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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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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"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
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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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"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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