I am a bleeding-heart conservative.
Conservative Quotes
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.
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
In South Africa, we call it apartheid. In Nazi Germany, we’d call it fascism. Here in the United States, we call it conservatism.
He (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) was an aristocrat and a conservative. He did not prefer, he said, a world with a hundred million bores in it to one with ten. The fewer the people who do not contribute beauty or thought, the better. He had little sympathy with the sufferings and failure of mankind, and […]
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution” the old one.
