Conservative Quotes

Everybody is in doubt about whether President Johnson is a conservative progressive or a progressive conservative, and he is in clover.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Conservatives haven’t had a new idea since they began purchasing women in lieu of clubbing them.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the corner – stone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.

Name me a conservative idea that is newer than five thousand years.

The conservative right has out-organized, out-researched, out-written and out-talked the liberals to the point where they’re almost intimidated into silence.

Conservatives claim that they stand for an ethic of freedom wedded to responsibility. But what they’re really asking for is a perpetual moral adolescence – a world in which, no matter how hungover you are on Sunday morning, there’s still someone around to make you go to church.

There are basically two kinds of conservatives; those who don’t got it and blame liberals and minorities for it, and those who got it and only care about keeping it that way.