The conservatives want freedom to act in the material realm; they tend to oppose government control of production, of industry, of trade, of business, of physical goods, of material wealth. But they advocate government control of man’s spirit, i.e., man’s consciousness; they advocate the State’s right to impose censorship, to determine moral values, to create […]
Conservative Quotes
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried.
Everybody is in doubt about whether President Johnson is a conservative progressive or a progressive conservative, and he is in clover.
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Conservatives haven’t had a new idea since they began purchasing women in lieu of clubbing them.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the corner – stone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
Name me a conservative idea that is newer than five thousand years.
The conservative right has out-organized, out-researched, out-written and out-talked the liberals to the point where they’re almost intimidated into silence.
