Conservative Quotes - Page 8

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

  Herman Cain

  Growing Up, Matter, Knows

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• Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

  Drew Carey

  Vegas, Judging, Unions

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Money, Business

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, President, Republican

  Rudy Giuliani's address to the Republican Party convention in New York, news.bbc.co.uk. August 30, 2004.

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• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, White, Flags

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Civilization, Ideas

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing

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• To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

  Douglas Wilson

  Doe, Conserving

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Tree, Upset

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.40, Crown Forum

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

  Paul Weyrich

  President, Legacy, Voters

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• In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Stupid, Boys, Differences

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Art, School, Mean

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• The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, House, Comfort

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• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Average, Criticism

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

  Powell Clayton

  Ideas, Gone, Radicalism

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• My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, Government, Guts

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• Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Half, Comedy

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Branches

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• I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Numbers, People

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• My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

  Philip E. Berger

  Focus, Effort, Messages

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• Nothing is more conservative than conservation

  Russell Kirk

  Conservation

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