Conservative famous quotes
04-23-2025
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 MacIntyre -
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 Cox -
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 -
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 Lichtman -
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 -
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 Scalia -
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
-- Ariel Durant -
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 -
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
-- Ben Shahn -
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
-- Ben Stein -
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.
-- Bill Halter -
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 -
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 -
Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
-- Bruce Mau -
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
-- Candice S. Miller -
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
-- Carl Jung -
Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.
-- Catherine Austin Fitts -
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
-- Catherine Opie -
Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them.
-- Charles Capps -
The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi is a conservative place. We need to keep it that way.
-- Charles Capps -
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.
-- Charles Schumer -
I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
-- Christopher Lasch -
But I came from a conservative Republican background.
-- Christopher Meloni -
Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.
-- Chuck Knox -
I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
-- Chuck Norris -
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
-- Claudia Schiffer -
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
-- Countee Cullen -
Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
-- David Brock -
I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.
-- David Cameron -
Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.
-- David Cannadine -
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
-- David Frum -
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
-- David Frum -
John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
-- David Miliband -
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.
-- David Shuster -
MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.
-- David Shuster -
Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea
-- Dennis Prager -
I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
-- Donny Deutsch -
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
-- Doris Lessing -
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
-- Douglas Brinkley -
To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.
-- Douglas Wilson -
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
-- Edith Hamilton -
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
-- Edmund Burke -
The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.
-- Edward Kennedy -
Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.
-- Eli Pariser -
I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
-- Elton John -
Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.
-- Emilio Estevez -
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
-- F. Lee Bailey -
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
-- Fiona Shaw -
A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'
-- Foster Friess -
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
-- Frank Gaffney -
A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet....
-- Frank Rizzo -
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
-- Frank Rizzo -
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
-- Frank Zappa -
The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
-- Franz von Papen -
Free people will set the course of history.
-- George W. Bush -
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
-- George W. Bush -
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
-- George W. Bush -
I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.
-- George W. Bush -
People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.
-- Gresham Barrett -
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.
-- Howard Baker -
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
-- Ione Skye -
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
-- Irving Kristol -
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.
-- Irving Kristol -
If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.
-- Isabel Paterson -
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
-- James Bovard
