Top Conservative Quotes

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have suc...

Girls, here's the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It's being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a very vested interest in stoking victim politics and exacerbating the ge...

Conservative Definition

(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.

(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.

(n.) A member of the Conservative party.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conversative shell, unless he doesn't feel discomfort there.

Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already...

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Conservative Christians take every word of the Bible literally except for the part about Loving Thy Neighbor.

There are those who feel that the world is ultimately moving closer to Truth and to prosperity as the times evolve; then there are those who feel that it is ultimately moving farther away from Truth a...

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

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.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally...

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.Look! we're saying. WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!We are defining the boundaries of norma...

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teache...

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.