Conservative Quotes - Page 5

My belief is that most people are conservative. They just haven't been asked yet.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

If you are explaining, you are losing.

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

The facts of life are conservative.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.