Conservative Quotes - Page 11

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  Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

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

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• To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Laughter, Perfect, Facts

  "On Being Conservative". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1956.

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• As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Faith, Inspiration

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

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• The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

  Patrick Henry

  Bible, God, Christian

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  Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Rallying Point, Honor

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Religious, Taken

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• As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Thinking, Government, Pay

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Stupidity, President

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• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  Salman Rushdie

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Doe, Economy

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  In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Exercise, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

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• The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Libertarian

  "Reason" Magazine, July 1, 1975.

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• A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Moon, Men, Looks

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Giving

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• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Punishment

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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  The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Government, History

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

  Kin Hubbard

  Clever, Work, Stupid

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• All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Pride, Men

  Remarks in Rudolf Wilde Platz,West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963.

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• Conservative's the last thing I am.

  Ewan McGregor

  Lasts

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• When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Silly, Mean, Political

  Television interview by David Frost, 19 May 1977

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• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

  Danica Patrick

  Moving On, Believe, Failure

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, America, Constitution

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