Quotes on Conservative

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Some conservative groups believe that a person cannot be both conservative and gay. They believe that traditional lives cannot be led by those who have not traditionally been accepted by society.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Why hit a conservative shot? When you miss it, you are in just as much trouble as when you miss a bold one.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.