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* No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. — Saying quoted by Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate, in 1866 report of the final accounting in the estate of A. B. ''New York Surrogate Reports'', 1 Tucker (N. Y. Surr.) 249 (1866). | * No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. — Saying quoted by Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate, in 1866 report of the final accounting in the estate of A. B. ''New York Surrogate Reports'', 1 Tucker (N. Y. Surr.) 249 (1866). | ||
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| + | ==Early voting== | ||
| + | *"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine." — Doug Preisse, Franklin County Republican Party chairman | ||
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| + | ==Voter ID== | ||
| + | *"Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done!" — Mike Turzai, Republican House Majority Leader in Pennsylvania | ||
| + | *"[North Carolina's voter ID] law is gonna kick the Democrats in the butt. ... If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it." — Don Yelton, former Bunscomb County Republican Precinct Chariman | ||
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Revision as of 00:48, September 10, 2014
The following list includes quotes about Conservative values. (Please add more)
Conservatism
- I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. — Benjamin Disraeli, in a speech at High Wycombe, England (27 November 1832); published in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), volume 1, p. 8.
- The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell, in a letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), published in Malcolm Muggeridge : A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter.
Pro-Life
- "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion." — Mother Teresa
Freedom
- "If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die." — Rand Paul
Economy
- "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin
- "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." — Bible (2 Thessalonians 3:10))
Legislature
- Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. — Kin Hubbard, in Marching To Zion, p.52
- No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. — Saying quoted by Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate, in 1866 report of the final accounting in the estate of A. B. New York Surrogate Reports, 1 Tucker (N. Y. Surr.) 249 (1866).
Early voting
- "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine." — Doug Preisse, Franklin County Republican Party chairman
Voter ID
- "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done!" — Mike Turzai, Republican House Majority Leader in Pennsylvania
- "[North Carolina's voter ID] law is gonna kick the Democrats in the butt. ... If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it." — Don Yelton, former Bunscomb County Republican Precinct Chariman
See also
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