(1254 quotes found)
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes”
Salman Rushdie
“I never dared be a radical when young, for fear it would make me a conservative when old”
Robert Frost
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.”
Billy Graham
“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell”
Edward Abbey
“Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid”
Kin Hubbard
“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.”
George Bush
“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”
George F. Will
