Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

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.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.

During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Essentially, the obligation of conservative media is to question what's going on, and say, "Is this something that is the right thing to do? Is it something that's constitutional? Is it something that is even wise to do?" I think that's true regardless of who's in power.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

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.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

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.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.