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Famous Conservative Quotes
A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The presence of a firearm makes us all safer. Wayne LaPierre
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Ronald Reagan
Many of us think of him as the thinking man’s Marlon Brando. George Will on Mitch Daniels
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet ‘A’ for amnesty and pin it on them. Rep. Steve King
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli
We should end the Environmental Protection Agency’s war against American oil and gas. Newt Gingrich
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will
I have fairly but intelligently earned many billions of dollars which, in a sense, was both a scorecard and acknowledgment of my abilities. Three time bankrupt Donald Trump
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
When they talk about raising your taxes, I think you should raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States. Donald Trump
Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four square for the American home but not for housing. Harry S. Truman
The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan and with good cause. Pat Boone
Leftist, socialist, former and current communist czars. Pat Boone
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. Michael Parenti, Democracy For The Few
The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country. Herman Cain
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future. Noam Chomsky, The Culture Of Terrorism
What do you mean, ‘knowing that there are more jailed journalists’? I think there should be more jailed journalists! Ann Coulter
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. Jimmy Carter
It’s just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years. Ann Coulter
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. George Carlin
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Henry Ward Beecher
Being willing to donate the taxpayers’ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
They are the driven crowds that make the army of the authoritarian overlord; they are the stuffing of conservatism; mediocrity is their god. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die. Donald Ewen Cameron
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing but only when the private power companies get their rake off. Harry S. Truman
Sometimes it happens that you feel disappointed, discouraged, abandoned by all: but God does not forget his children, he never abandons them! He is always at our side, especially in trying times.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson
I ask you to pray fervently for this intention, the Pope continued, so that Christ can take even what might seem to us impure, scandalous or threatening, and turn it into a miracle. Families today need miracles!
The Democrats are the party that says the government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says the government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. P. J. O’Rourke
Let’s think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings. Let’s think also of genetic manipulation, of the manipulation of life, or of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.
We had to fight the enemy in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. Margaret Thatcher
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling Stop! William F. Buckley, Jr
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.Mark Twain
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ‘ancient institution’ the old one. Douglas William Jerrold
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. Harold Rosenberg
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. George Carlin
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future. Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. Jimmy Carter
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it. Wendell Berry
I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts. Bill Clinton
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin Coolidge
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart Mill
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people’s bills. Margaret Thatcher
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. Paul Keating
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Henry Ward Beecher
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston S. Churchill
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead. Leo Rosten
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. Ronald Reagan
Republicans don’t like people who talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry Truman
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. Milton Friedman
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it’s been taken over by the religious right. Bill Maher
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself. Harry Truman
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing. Montesquieu
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate. Lyndon Johnson
