Quotes and Sayings About Conservative
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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There are conservative people in all colours in America.
-- Adepero Oduye -
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition
-- Alasdair MacIntyreSource : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
-- Alex CoxSource : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
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Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
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I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
-- Allan Bloom -
Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.
-- Allan LichtmanSource : "Obama Can't Lose? Allan Lichtman Is Never Wrong, Except This Time" by Russell Halley, www.businessinsider.com. September 5, 2011.
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The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
-- Amanda Beard -
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.
-- Ann Coulter -
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
-- Antonin ScaliaSource : "Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend" by Daniel J. Hemel, www.thecrimson.com. September 29, 2004.
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
-- Ariel DurantSource : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster
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I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
-- Arthur Balfour -
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
-- Ashley Scott -
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
-- Barry Goldwater -
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The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
-- Ben ShahnSource : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.73, Harvard University Press
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
-- Ben Stein -
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.
-- Bill HalterSource : "Labor Unions Turn Against Lincoln", www.realclearpolitics.com. May 11, 2010.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
-- Bjork -
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.
-- Bob Inglis -
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
-- Boris Johnson -
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Fiscally I’m very conservative … others say that I’m socially moderate,
-- Brian Sandoval -
I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
-- Brit Hume