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“Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.”

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.”

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Author:Don Drysdale

“Just honest. To me, being 'politically incorrect' means the opposite of being political -- which means to spin everything. That's all it's ever meant to me. It's never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.”

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Author:John Green

“I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.”

Should Artist Freedom Progress Conservative Believer Monk

Book:The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

“People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.”

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Author:Allan Gregg

“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.”

Artist Members Conservative Uneasiness

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable”

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Author:Michael Heseltine

“The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative”

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Author:Kenneth Clarke

“I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.”

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Author:Kenneth Clarke

“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”

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Author:Richard M. Weaver

“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”

Long Has Beens Turns Class Economic Conservative Beer Solidarity Working Class Buddy

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.”

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Author:David Cameron

“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

Values Habit Conservative Terrorism Administration Nasty Conservative Values

Author:Tom Fitton

“It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.”

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Author:Karen Hughes

“This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.”

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Author:Cass Sunstein

“I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.”

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Author:Tim Powers

“I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.”

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Author:Melanie Fiona

“Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.”

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Author:Azealia Banks

“Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three ... Oh crap, what was three?”

Two Three Worry Skills Conservative Crap

Author:David Letterman

“A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.”

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Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

Nations Moral Issues Duty Safety Conservative Patriotic Conservation Moral Issues Continuance

Book:Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings

Source: Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings

“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.”

Country Issues Greater Conservative Conservation Teddy

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.”

Firsts Mean Order House Nations Resources Tasks Fundamentals Conservative Conservation

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.”

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Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.”

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Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.”

Years Lasts Practice Conservative Japan Strict Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.”

Thinking Years Art Suffering Hollywood Conservative Reactionaries

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.”

Government Faces Roles Notion Conservative Activist Federal Government

Author:Robert Draper

“The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.”

People Thinking Has Beens Two Party Tradition Conservative Liberal Party

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.”

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Author:Steve Schmidt

“The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.”

“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.”

Black Fate Conservative Explanation Dissent Victimization

Book:A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Source: A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

“Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.”

Giving Names Left Simple Known Weak Wings Conservative Extremes Balanced Versus

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.”

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Author:George Will

“The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.”

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Author:Richard Armour

“Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.”

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Author:William E. Gladstone

“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.”

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Author:John Kapelos

“I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.”

“Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.”

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Author:Jenny Hval

“There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.”

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Author:Steve Coogan