Conservative Quotes - Page 27

• What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.

  Edward Jenks

  Class, Long, Facts

  "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 58., 1912.

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• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wish, Reform, May

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• I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

  John Wayne

  Jesus, Wings, Views

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.16, Taylor Trade Publications

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• There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.

  Tim Heidecker

  Song, Fun, Coffee

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

  Michael Enzi

  Party, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

  Michael Enzi

  Strong, Government, Said

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Strong, Reading, Moving

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• When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

  Clint Eastwood

  Reckless, Young

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  True Friend, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sides, Kind

  "Bruce Jenner, After Coming Out As Transgender, Says He’s A Conservative" By Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2015.

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• Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

  Bruce Mau

  Black, Being Cool

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• At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

  Philip Slater

  Men, Long, Twenties

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• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  Gabriel Macht

  Thinking, Nbc, Stories

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

  Candice S. Miller

  Pledge

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• Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.

  Alan Wolfe

  Home, Government, Iraq

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• I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Nice, Tradition, Bits

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• It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

  Yahoo Serious

  Creative, Infinite, Universe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Im as conservative as they come.

  Matthew Vaughn

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• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  Zach Wamp

  Country, Independent, Issues

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Profound

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Europe, Justice

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• Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Elderly, Twenties, Would Be

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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