Top 100 Conservative Quotes
#1. Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
William Hague
#2. In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.
Nina Easton
#3. I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
Buzz Aldrin
#4. Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach ...
Charles Barkley
#5. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.
Jon Weisman
#6. The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
Henry Adams
#7. America is conservative in fundamental principles ... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Gunnar Myrdal
#8. You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.
Tom Tancredo
#9. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.
Philip Zaleski
#10. It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
Charles Krauthammer
#12. We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
Allen West
#13. In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
Boris Johnson
#15. Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Jon Postel
#16. Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.
Ronald Reagan
#17. It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.
Nina Easton
#18. I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'
Condoleezza Rice
#19. If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
Richard Rorty
#21. Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?
Camille Paglia
#22. Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.
Sydney Pollack
#23. If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.
Jeb Bush
#24. What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
Timothy Noah
#25. I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.
L. Brent Bozell Jr.
#26. I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.
Bobby Jindal
#27. The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
Benjamin Tucker
#28. I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
Christopher Buckley
#29. (A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.
Tammy Bruce
#30. More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.
Dean Spade
#31. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.
Ann Coulter
#32. Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.
Robert Stacy McCain
#33. I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.
Robert Davi
#34. I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.
Michael Phelps
#35. I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
Rupert Murdoch
#36. Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
Benjamin Graham
#37. Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other laws should not change unless we the people change them.
John Cornyn
#38. We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
Peter MacKay
#39. I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim Carrey
#40. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
Allen West
#41. I think the Liberals are doing everything they can to do turn it around, but the reality is that we're at the point right now where only Stephen Harper can lose this election. Only some major mistake by Harper or someone close to him can derail the Conservative juggernaut.
Nik Nanos
#42. 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
#43. A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet
#44. Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.
George Lakoff
#45. So, my conservative-looking, suit-wearing boss has a tattoo and has his penis pierced?" I ask with a smile.
Nate laughs and takes another pull on his beer. "Yes. You didn't seem to mind the piercing, if memory serves correctly.
Kristen Proby
#46. You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
David Dewhurst
#47. 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
#48. In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
Roger Scruton
#49. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.
Paul Hawken
#50. I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant
Curtis Sittenfeld
#51. Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
Jane Smiley
#52. In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history
Russell Kirk
#53. I am not a conservative - neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook ... I just do not happen to be that animal.
Allan Bloom
#54. Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Rick Perlstein
#55. To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.
Bill Maher
#56. So I think all gays who are born gay are overwhelming conservative, maybe apolitical, and all those angry gays, causing trouble for everybody, I don't think they were born gay. I think they are just angry at their fathers.
Ann Coulter
#57. I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
Richie Furay
#58. For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.
Tina Fey
#59. It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Robert Anton Wilson
#60. I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
Austin Scott
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t
William R. Trotter
#64. Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard
#66. I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.
Richard C. Armitage
#67. 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
#68. The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind - a
Peter Hitchens
#69. When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
John Bercow
#70. It has become clear just how divided our nation is - between young and old, north and south and those with different education and work backgrounds. So it is clear to me that the next leader of the Conservative Party must be someone who can unite the country.
Nicky Morgan
#71. I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to earn a living. Luckily we spoke quite a bit of French at home so it wasn't too difficult for me to write in my adopted language.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#72. 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 A. Schaeffer
#73. There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.
Tim Robbins
#74. The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative
Kenneth Clarke
#75. I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.
Ted Cruz
#76. Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
John Bercow
#77. I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.
Jeaniene Frost
#78. In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.
Elvis Presley
#79. My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
Clint Eastwood
#80. What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
Ashley Scott
#82. I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
Bob Edwards
#83. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.
Jane Russell
#84. In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.
Euzhan Palcy
#85. As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.
Julian Critchley
#86. My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18 ... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.
Kimberly Quinn
#87. I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.
Sandrine Bonnaire
#88. A radical is one of whom people say 'He goes too far.' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who 'doesn't go far enough.' Then there is the reactionary, 'one who doesn't go at all.' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
Woodrow Wilson
#89. 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
#90. There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
Walter Savage Landor
#91. These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
#92. In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
Edith Hamilton
#93. And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.
Kerry Healey
#94. I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.
Jeb Bush
#95. America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.
Howard Dean
#96. I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.
Richard Marshall
#97. If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#98. When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
Rick Perry
#99. This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
Francine Busby
#100. I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
David H. Koch
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