Conservative quotes

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.

• I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Homosexuality

• "Homosexuality is death, and I choose life." — Michael Glatze

See also

• Vietnam War Quotes
• Atheism Quotes
• Quotations about Feminism