Conservative Quotes

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the peop...

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were sh...

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its ...

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more t...

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a...

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abor...

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, alth...

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the...

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal b...

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and yo...

An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance...

It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades ...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It w...

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conser...

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has ...

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher'...

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You ...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional bat...

If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, co...

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks togeth...

There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans fo...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...