Conservatism Quotes - Page 10

• They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Should Have, Two, Twenties

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• That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

  George Will

  Strong, Attitude, Government

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• It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

  Andrew Sullivan

  America, Tragedy, Resistance

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• All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Religious, Roots, Political

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• Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Heritage, Enterprise, Property

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• The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.

  Tim Montgomerie

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  "Can David Cameron make Tories the new party of social justice?" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2015.

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• I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Thinking, Politician

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

  Warren Buffett

  Philosophy, Loss, Errors

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• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Japan, Problem, Cowardice

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• It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, People

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• There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Moral, Fine

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• David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

  Chris Hayes

  Identity, Trump, Ideology

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as ideology.

  Chris Hayes

  Trump, Endorsements, Palin

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

  Sydney Pollack

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

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• I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

  Richard Marshall

  Thinking, Way, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican Party in many ways in its conservatism and yet sort of lists back a little towards the, let`s say right-center establishment type figures in part because Rupert Murdock, whose Ailes`s ultimate boss over at 21st Century Fox, is a bit more pragmatic and centrist than Ailes himself.

  Donald Trump

  Party, Years, Boss

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

  Jane Smiley

  Character, Views, Survival

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• A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

  Christina Stead

  Future, Youth

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Years, People

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• We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Long

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• I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Rich, Poor, Havens

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Two, Unions, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Views, Answers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars, they have a strain of decency and conservatism that maybe even their filmmakers don't even recognize. Yet, we cross our fingers that by mistake, liberal filmmakers and liberal producers are going to by mistake make conservative movies. We have to become invested in it, or else we have no excuse to complain.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Mistake, Complaining, Dollars

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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