Conservative Quotes - Page 26

• Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Regret, Leader, Greek

  Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA

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• Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

  Ilana Mercer

  Mean, Gun, Self

  "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.

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• The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives.

  Mark Riebling

  Military, Historical, Mind

  "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.

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• Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.

  Danny Glover

  Race, Texas, People

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• There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

  Rand Paul

  Wall, Dollars, Progressive

  "Transcript for Rand Paul Rides Filibuster Popularity to CPAC", abcnews.go.com.

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• The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

  Mike Lee

  Misguided, Candidates, Moderates

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• The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, Males, Female

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• A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Cnn, Make You Think

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• This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Weekend, Ducks

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• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  B. D. Wong

  Children, School, Kids

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• It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative,
  but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

  Robin Williams

  Gun, Sound, Volvo

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• It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.

  David Limbaugh

  War, Iraq, Needs

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• It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Interesting, Parent, Elements

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• I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Rama, Bohemian

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• Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

  David Cannadine

  Office, Way, British History

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• You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

  Brit Hume

  Party, Literature, Might

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• I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I'm tired of women who are conservative like me, being dismissed by others because we don't agree with them. And I think it's time to take that word back for all women, not just for those who believe in the litany of the left.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Tired, Thinking

  "'The Five' debate the Confederate flag controversy". The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.

  Benjamin Carson

  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

  "Dr. Ben Carson: Health Care Is 'Upside-Down'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Obfuscation, Entertainment, Republican

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• Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Disease, Predictions

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• I'll say something else about Christine O'Donnell. You ready? I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute. I think she's kind of refreshing. She's a conservative. What's the problem?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cute, Thinking, Castles

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• In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Air, Law, Common Sense

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.39

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• There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Radicalism, Conservatism

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

  William James

  Regret, Men, Agents

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