Conservative Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

  Leon Botstein

  Generations, Levels, Definitions

  Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”

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• A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

  James Madison

  Military, Long, Liberty

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

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• If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure... ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.

  Monroe Trout

  Differences, Play, Risk

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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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• 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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• 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 apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Moving, Creativity

  "Bush touts conservative credentials to anti-tax group". www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2015.

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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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• Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Investment, Diversification

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• In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Country, Moving

  "Politicians React To The Awful August Jobs Numbers" by Zeke Miller, businessinsider.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

  Mary Norris

  Clubs, Punctuation, Members

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

  Russell Kirk

  Thinking, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

  Angela Merkel

  Strength, Strong, Party

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• I often think it's comical
  How Nature always does contrive
  That every boy and every gal
  That's born into the world alive
  Is either a little Liberal
  Or else a little Conservative!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Boys, Thinking, Doe

  Iolanthe act 2 (1882)

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• In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

  Stockwell Day

  Issues, People, United States

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• I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.

  Tina Modotti

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Past, Other Worlds, Civilization

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• I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

  Jeb Bush

  Men, My Own

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

  Chris Christie

  Teacher, Cutting, Pro Life

  Chris Christie at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

  Tony Abbott

  Issues, People, Labels

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

  Bruce Willis

  Ideas, Arguing, Sometimes

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