Quotes on Conservative

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.