Conservative Quotes

The only conservative art I can come up with are Wagner and the movie Red Dawn.

The enemy is not conservatism, the enemy is not liberalism. The enemy is bullshit.

Conservative Republican – a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Liberal Republican – a man who believes some things should be done for the first time, just not now.

I suppose I can understand the selfish callous disregard of conservatives, it’s the pride in it that passes me by.

I dream of the day when conservatives learn the difference between a sin and a crime and liberals learn the difference between a virtue and a requirement.

Conservatives are accustomed to being called fascists and well prepared to defend themselves on that ground. Liberals are used to being called socialists. Those labels can be switched, however, and remain valid and instructive.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. It affirms because it holds. Its fingers clutch the fact, and it will not open its eyes to see a better fact.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

The highest function of conservatism is to keep what progressiveness has accomplished.

I never dared to be a radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.