Conservative Quotes

Conservatives are but men who have learned to love the new order forced upon them by radicals. Conservatism is a state of mind resulting from a good job.

The most hopeless conservative is the leftover progressive of an earlier generation.

As the growing conservative ideology speeds us down that road of selfishness, intolerance, bigotry, and petty hatreds, the only thing the Religious Right has done about such immoral values is to raise the speed limits.

A conservative may tell you that you shouldn’t make fun of something. “You shouldn’t make fun of cripples,” he may say. And he may be right. But a liberal will tell you, “You can’t make fun of cripples.” And he’s wrong- as anybody who’s heard the one about Helen Keller falling into a well and […]

The conservative… a man who thinks nothing new ought to be adopted for the first time.

I am a bleeding-heart conservative.

Why are conservatives opposed to government funding of art, music, public broadcasting and so forth? It’s not really because of the dirty pictures. If my tax dollars are going to be spent by a nitwit in SoHo, I might as well get some smut out of it. The problem is that taxes are taken by […]

No man can be a conservative until he has something to lose.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

The Tory Party used always to be known as “the stupid party”. But when Tories grow intelligent it is time to feel for your watch and count your small change.