Conservative Quotes - Page 8

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Freedom, Responsibility, Caring

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• I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Political, Looks

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

  James Burnham

  Attitude, Thinking, Experience

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• The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Religious, Redneck, Reality

  "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.

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• To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

  Douglas Wilson

  Doe, Conserving

  Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service

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• Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Tree, Upset

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.40, Crown Forum

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Weather, Argument, Economy

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• I am a conservative and proud of it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Proud

  "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Nothing is more conservative than conservation

  Russell Kirk

  Conservation

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• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Average, Criticism

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

  Paul Weyrich

  President, Legacy, Voters

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• That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Branches

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• My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

  Philip E. Berger

  Focus, Effort, Messages

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• Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

  Powell Clayton

  Ideas, Gone, Radicalism

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Country, Spring, Party

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• In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Stupid, Boys, Differences

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• I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Numbers, People

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• My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, Government, Guts

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