(1254 quotes found)
“We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those comma”
John Frame
“Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil. Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If you're not providing controversy and excitement, people won't listen, or watch.”
Bill O'Reilly
“A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before”
Frank Rizzo
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past”
John Maynard Keynes
“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?”
Senator John Kerry
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung”
Henry Ward Beecher
“In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Michael Oakeshott
“So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.”
Dick Gregory
