Quotes About Conservative

Habit is… the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.

liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Terry Tempest Williams's koan came to me in an e-mail, which reads: "I loved both these men. I still feel their hands on my shoulder, wondering what they would be saying, writing, now. In so many ways, Ed was the conservative, Wally, forever the radical.

The final victory over the Soviet Union did not really lead to the domination of "the market." More than anything, it simply cemented the dominance of fundamentally conservative managerial elites—corporate bureaucrats who use the pretext of short-term, competitive, bottom-line thinking to squelch anything likely to have revolutionary implications of any kind.

It was not the first time I had encountered on university campuses ignorance of Hayek and other conservative intellectuals, nor was it accidental. Such ignorance is a direct consequence of the tenured left's dominance of liberal arts institutions and its politicization of the curriculum and the faculty hiring process since the 1960s.

Faste is an idiot." "No, Jan, he isn't. He's just …" "What?" "Conservative. He's not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads." "Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women.

To preach conservative heresy — making the rules stricter than they are, distorting doctrines through ignorance or narrowness, denying the Eucharist to those who have a right to receive it — is pretty safe. No one will complain to the bishop. But anyone who leans to the left is in danger of instant denunciation. There is a saying in the Vatican, "The right writes." The left fumes in silence. That is a sin against stewardship.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

I'm a small government conservative.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.