Conservative Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Surely the first obligation of a political thinker is to understand the nature of man. The Conservative does not claim special powers of perception…

— Barry M. Goldwater

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

— Roger Scruton

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit…

— James F. Cooper

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men…

— James F. Cooper

“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and…

— Frédéric Bastiat

A government of laws, and not of men.

— John Adams

“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.”

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

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

— James Warburg

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

— Anonymous