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Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If they return to the basic values that a majority of Americans share, they will regain power. If not, they won't.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without their abayas. So I started writing out little anecdotes about things I couldn't photograph and wove it in with a more obscure picture and called it "moments that got away". I realised these worked as well as the photographs by themselves. There are a lot of photographers who feel the story is all in the photographs but I really believe in weaving in complementary words with the pictures.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

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

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.

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.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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