(1237 quotes found)
“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
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before”
Frank Rizzo
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“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
“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
“The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now skipped a generation. At this rate the next leader will have to be exhumed' - after Michael Howard was made leader”
Rory Bremner
“So we'll go with what he says. If he says he feels it, we'll probably be more conservative.”
Stan Conte
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