Conservative Quotes

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

I'm socially conservative in some things. I don't know a label that fits, honestly.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

No gains without pains.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.