Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

That's why they're in the problem - having the problem they're having. They're not conservative. They're being run by their donors.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

The facts of life are conservative.

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

The most common mistakes were investing in money market funds by people who were so scared at the prospect of managing their own funds that they picked the most conservative option, and their investments did not keep up with inflation. The second major mistake was being too heavily invested in their own company's stock, and buying when it was high and there was a lot of optimism about the company, and then having to sell it low when the company got in trouble.

The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to shield Obama.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

The media has a tremendous bias and has for a very long time against the Republican party and against somebody that happens to be conservative. They certainly have a tremendous bias against me.