Conservative Quotes - Page 15

• The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

  Mike Pence

  Strong, Government, Uncharted Waters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Allies, Principles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

  Rick Perry

  Dream, Proud, Today

  "The Deep Shame of Vancouver" by David Warren, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

  Rick Perry

  Pride, Effort, Moral

  "The Crucial Vote on New York's Same-Sex Marriage; GOP Field Grows Again; Saudi Women Defy Driving Ban". transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

  Rick Perry

  Heart, Movement, Newts

  "Perry drops out, endorses Gingrich" by Peter Hamby, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2012.

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• We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Reality, Wind

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• The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

  John Podhoretz

  Tactics, Republican, Politician

  "Conservatives goes wild" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. January 04, 2013.

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• It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

  Frank Gaffney

  Reality, Enough, Former

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• I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

  Jon Lovitz

  Thinking, People, Be Who You Are

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• Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

  George Gilder

  School, Successful, Opposites

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• Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Students, Agnostic, Evolution

  "America’s Darwin Problem" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Circles, Reason Why, Found

  Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

  S. J. Perelman

  Airplane, Glasses, Santa Barbara

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Loyalty, Believe, Political Opinions

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Men, Desire

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.207

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• A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hands, People, Progress

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Want, Married, Cult

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• I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

  Paul Hawken

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

  John Warnock

  Way, Limits

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• If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

  Norman Lamont

  Order, Unemployment, Pay

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• Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Rejection, Systematic, Tradition

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black

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• If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Want, Angry

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• It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

  Charlie Munger

  Miracle, Dumb, Trying

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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