Conservative Quotes - Page 3

• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, Heart, Numbers

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• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

  Will Rogers

  Government, Rome, House

  "Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered". Book by John Galt, p. 235, 1986.

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• I shall not grow conservative with age.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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  I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  Harriet Tubman

  Death, Freedom, Two

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• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  J. C. Watts

  Losing, Explaining, Ifs

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• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Witty, Peace

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

  Walter E. Williams

  Democracy, Liberty, Mob Rule

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• I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Dumb

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• This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Littles

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• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Silly, Past

  "Text: Rumsfeld's News Briefing". www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2003.

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• Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stress, Stupid, Silly

  "What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks of You" by Ken Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

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• A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Air, Feet

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• The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Thank You, Eight, Years

  "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

  Antonin Scalia

  Stupid, Silly, Sake

  "Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend" by Daniel J. Hemel, www.thecrimson.com. September 29, 2004.

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• The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

  Ernest Bevin

  Change, Men, Political

  Speech, 8 Sept. 1927, in Report of Proceedings of the Trades Union Congress (1927) p. 298

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• The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

  Ariel Durant

  Radical, Valuable, Propose

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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• Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

  Paul Weyrich

  Media, Stories, Radio

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Favors, Concern

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• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

  Jim Cooper

  Thinking, Foundation, Tanks

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• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Change, Real, Usa

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

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• It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

  Michael Parenti

  Mean, People, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

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