Quotes About Conservative

The conservative, the slow-witted and the envious existed in every profession.

For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary.

A classe média baixa, o pequeno fabricante, o lojista, o artesão, o camponês, todos lutam contra a burguesia para salvar da extinção sua existência como frações da classe média. Eles não são, portanto, revolucionários, mas conservadores.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

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.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.