Conservative Quotes

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let’s make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is […]

Liberals believe government should take people’s earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people’s earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one’s property to give to another, the debate […]

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.

There, in stark polarity, you have the two camps’ view of each other. Liberals are inclined to see conservatives as bigoted, hate-filled rubes; conservatives are inclined to see liberals as immoral, degenerate, and not really American.

A libertarian is a conservative who got mugged by his government.

Fascism: The conservative notion that killing people makes them work harder.

A true conservative is one who can’t see any difference between radicalism and an idea.