“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.” MenMadeEndsStatesDonePoliticalForceEasyUnitedUnited StatesHe ManMastersCitizensActivityCreaturesTasksRemainsPropertyConservativeMade ItCorporationsServantTrue FriendBeing ThereCommonwealthEasy Tasks Book:Letters and Speeches Source: Letters and Speeches
“Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name.” ThinkingMenWantBelieveImportantHardNamesOpinionHe ManIndependentConservative Author:Merle Haggard
“Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!” MenRunningStrongDifficultHe ManCostIntelligentCompetitionConservativeIgnorantCompetitorsHolding OnEyelidsKeep Running Author:John D. Rockefeller
“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.” MenLittlesReasonPassionHe ManTerribleConservativeServantEmpiresCivilisationDoubters Author:John B. S. Haldane
“The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.” MenBelieveKnownHe ManConservativeTemperament Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott