Conservative Quotes

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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that… — Roger Scruton
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader. — Daniel Hannan
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
If political correctness has achieved one thing, itâ€™s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language — Stewart Lee
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. — Eric Hobsbawm
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. — Gough Whitlam
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security â€˜benefits,â€™ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal… — Barry Goldwater
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of peopleâ€™s private lives.… — Barry Goldwater
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I… — James Ellroy
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone… — Niles Eldredge
It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move in that direction.… — Rod Dreher
Donâ€™t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. — Bruce Mau
At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what… — Philip Slater
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and… — Gabriel Macht
I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative. — Candice S. Miller
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to… — Alan Wolfe
Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on… — Eli Pariser

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