Conservative Quotes - Page 12

• Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

  Winston Churchill

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

  Ron Paul

  War, Way, Declaration

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

  Mike Pence

  Christian, Order, Republican

  VP Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 20 July 2016

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• I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

  John Podhoretz

  Cities, Atmosphere, Wholeheartedly

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• A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  "Ronald Reagan: A Man True to His Word".

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  If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  America, Choices, Would Be

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• Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Moving, Dew, Wipe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.17, tredition

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• Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Rehabilitation

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• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Practice, Individual, Appeals

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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memorable, Political Revolution, Revolutionary Leaders

  New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

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• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Political

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• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Letting Go, Stay Strong, Men

  "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 641), 1971.

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• it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

  Winston Churchill

  Government, People, Politics

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Creativity, Emotional

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, Men, Innovation

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Volume II, Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

  Thomas Fuller

  Believe, Done, Firsts

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• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Yelling, Political, Politics

  "Why Republican Politicians Keep Selling Out Freedom" by Jo Jorgensen, gos.sbc.edu. 1996.

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• I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Terrorism

  Bullhorn Address to Ground Zero Rescue Workers, delivered 14 September 2001, NYC, New York

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• You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.

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• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Politics, Economy

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

  Frederick Douglass

  4th Of July, Slave, July

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.

  Philip E. Agre

  Real, Littles, Libertarian

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• The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

  Thomas Sowell

  Diversity, Important, Liberty

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.

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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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