(1254 quotes found)
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms”
Salman Rushdie
“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot
“A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that government cannot and should not do. Liberals and socialists, on the other hand, are convinced that by interfering with the free market they can create a better economy, or that by social engineering they can create a new and improved human nature.”
Stockwell Day
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'”
Garrison Keillor
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
Al Franken
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one”
Douglas Jerrold
