Conservative Quotes - Page 6

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Political, Politics

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

  George Washington

  Gun, Fake, Second Amendment

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• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Fighting, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Radicalism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Joy, Firsts, Salvation

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.74, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann wrong that swine flu broke out under Carter" by Bill Adair, www.politifact.com. April 30, 2009.

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• When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

  Glenn Beck

  Stupid, Silly, Sick

  "Fox News' rabid propagandist Glenn Beck has lured me to America". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

  Ashley Scott

  Tattoo, Husband, My Husband

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• A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

  Mort Sahl

  Believe, Reform, Reformation

  Twitter post from May 19, 2012

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• I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Guy, Way, Boring

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• I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

  Brit Hume

  Thinking, People, Literature

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• I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Eight, Years

  "Clarke lines up backers for leadership" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Two, Majors

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• I'm a compassionate conservative.

  John Engler

  Compassionate

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• You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

  Tom Tancredo

  Republican, Knows

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

  Jon Postel

  Principles, Accepting, Implementation

  "The Robustness Principle". RFC 793, "Transmission Control Protocol", entire text of section 2.10, www.ietf.org. September 1981.

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• Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Immigration, Reform

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• Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Past, Yield, Ideas

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

  Joan of Arc

  Judging, Judge Me, Peril

  Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Catholic Church. Diocese of Beauvais (France) (1931). “The trial of Jeanne d'Arc”

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• All great peoples are conservative.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.159, 北戴河出版

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• A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Men, Roots

  "The Evolution of Words and Meanings", The Illustrated London News, July 3, 1920.

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• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Presidential, Political

  1929 Press conference, Mar.

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• If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

  Ann Coulter

  Silly, Worry, President

  Interview with "New York Observer", October 2, 2007.

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