Quotes About Conservative

I'm a one-nation Conservative and that means exactly what it says on the tin.

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

I don't subscribe to this view that the far-right is somehow in control of the Conservative party from top to toe.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

The media has a tremendous bias and has for a very long time against the Republican party and against somebody that happens to be conservative. They certainly have a tremendous bias against me.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

I instinctively dislike ever to uphold the conservative as opposed to the bold

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.

the modern American, particularly in Texas and the Southwest, talks progressive, but he votes conservative. He assails Washington and all its works, but demands more than his share of federal money; indeed the Southwest only exists at all thanks to federal spending on water projects, without which it would go back to the desert within a year.

be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

As I looked around me in 2016, I saw conservative White Christians demonstrating much more fear than faith.

in America, as Friedrich Hayek and others have noted, a conservative is one who protects and defends what are considered liberal institutions in Europe but largely conservative ones in America: private property, free markets, individual liberty, freedom of conscience, and the rights of communities to determine for themselves how they will live within these guidelines.9

For progressives fascist is a conservative who is winning an argument.

Yra laik?, ir mano nuomone, mes dabar esam tokiuos laikuos, kai konservatiškumas, "atsilikimas" yra kur kas pažangiau, kur kas avangardiškiau, negu bet kokie viešai pripažinti "pažang?s" jud?jimai ar reiškiniai.

King's calm tone and conservative attire may have disguised the boldness of his words: "I think it's better to be aggressive at this point," he said. "It seems to me that it is both historically and sociologically true that privileged classes do not give up their privileges voluntarily. And they do not give them up without strong resistance.

For example, do you agree that "the government should do more to advance the common good, even if that means limiting the freedom and choices of individuals"? If so, then you are probably a liberal. If not, then you could be either a libertarian or a conservative. The split between liberals (progressives) and libertarians (classical liberals) occurred over exactly this question more than a hundred years ago, and it shows up clearly in our data today.

The moral domain is unusually narrow in WEIRD cultures, where it is largely limited to the ethic of autonomy (i.e. moral concerns about individuals harming, oppressing, or cheating other individuals). It is broader — including the ethics of community and divinity— in most other societies, and within religious and conservative moral matrices within WEIRD societies.

What makes social and political arguments conservative as opposed to orthodox is that the critique of liberal or progressive arguments takes place on the enlightened grounds of the search for human happiness based on the use of reason.35 As a lifelong liberal, I had assumed that conservatism = orthodoxy = religion = faith = rejection of science.

conservative caring is somewhat different—it is aimed not at animals or at people in other countries but at those who've sacrificed for the group.12 It is not universalist; it is more local, and blended with loyalty.