Conservative Quotes - Page 29

• Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Communist, Fascists

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

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• In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'

  Ted Cruz

  Eye, Guy, Looks

  "White House: We don't negotiate with terrorists". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2015.

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• My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Religious, Memories

  "For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Views, Ideas

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• Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Men, Effort

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.220, Lulu.com

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• I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

  Cliff Martinez

  Past, Trying, Done

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

  Brigid Berlin

  Real, Hippie, Flower

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

  Rand Paul

  Pay, Program, Can Not

  "Texas Indictments; Plane Crash Investigation; Republican Debate". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 11, 2015.

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• People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Winning, Iowa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Thinking, Campaigns

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

  Arca

  Girl, Powerful, Boys

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughing, Rebel, Joining

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• Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Strong, Intelligent

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• I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

  Studs Terkel

  Drinking, Roots, Water

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Passion, Men, Littles

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Hyman Rickover

  Country, Memories, Military

  US Naval Postgraduate School Address, March 16, 1954.

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• No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

  James Warburg

  Men, Loses

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• One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Government, Views

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• If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

  Barney Frank

  Morning, Hate, Fire

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• When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, Fun, Hate

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• We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

  George C. Scott

  Independent, Wife, Together

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• I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.

  Simon Critchley

  Opposites, People, Cases

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, People, Economy

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.242, Best Books on

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• The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Believe, Men, He Man

  "We stand in the dock with America" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Art, Stupid, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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