Conservative Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  Quoted in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 27 Oct. 1993

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• Duty is ours, results are God's.

  John Quincy Adams

  Reality, Results, Duty

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• He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Pride

  "Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet". National Liberty Journal, February 1999.

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• What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

  John McCain

  Silly, Might, Unexpected

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• We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

  John McCain

  Stupid, Struggle, Silly

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Do you have blacks, too?

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Republican

  "You've been a great audience ..." by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Silly, Order

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.67, Crown Forum

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• It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.

  Pat Robertson

  Silly, Blessing, Long

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• I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Airplane, Airports

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• I think I was unprepared for war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Stupid, Silly

  Interview with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2008.

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• My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.

  Andre Bauer

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

  George Will

  Justice, May, Poetic

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• Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

  Stephen Covey

  Victory, Privacy, Harvest

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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  I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Would Be

  Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr

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• I've set a clear doctrine: America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists, and you're an enemy of the United States of America.

  George W. Bush

  Country, America, Enemy

  George W. Bush's address on terrorism in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2006.

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  Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

  James Monroe

  Country, House, Liberty

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

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• While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

  Jeremiah Denton

  Voice, Messages, Desperate

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

  Watchman Nee

  Want, Lord

  Watchman Nee (1987). “Gleanings in the Fields of Boaz”, p.91, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

  James Denton

  Born, Raised In The South, Born And Raised

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

  John Gresham Machen

  Biblical, Criticism, Alternatives

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• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  William E. Gladstone

  Trust, Fear, People

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• You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Gun Control, Second Amendment

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• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Political, Wish

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56

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