Quotes about Conservative
I'm more boring and more conservative.
- John Malkovich
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
- Dennis Prager
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
- Maude Royden
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
- Philip Yancey
I think that Gov. Huckabee is one of us. I know that a lot of the other candidates try to talk like evangelicals, but he's actually one of us. He believes like we do on all the issues, which energizes me as a voter.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.
- Ronald Reagan
I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.
- Glenn Beck
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The weariness and serenity of the churches just now make it a good time to study the prophets and get rid of tired misconceptions. The dominant conservative misconception, evident in manifold bumper stickers, is that the prophet is a fortune-teller, a predictor of things to come (mostly ominous), usually with specific reference to Jesus.
- Walter Brueggemann
My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
- Drew Barrymore
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
- William James
The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.
- Paul Washer