Conservative Quote by Edith Hamilton

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper…

— John Angell James

I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're gone. We…

— Anne Rice

“[On Anger] [T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits…

— Andrew Murray

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which…

— David Hume

Good temper is an estate for life.

— William Hazlitt

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

— Italo Calvino

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

— Francis Atterbury

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

— James M. Barrie

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

— Hugh Blair

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

— Stanley Hauerwas

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger,

— Erick Erickson