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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'm instinctively a Conservative. -- Maurice Saatchi
Conservative's the last thing I am. -- Ewan McGregor
I've got money so I'm a Conservative. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. -- Dale Carnegie
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. -- Ken Livingstone
The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable -- Michael Heseltine
Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech. -- Michael Pare
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. -- Milton Friedman
I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party. -- Andrew Cuomo
I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government. -- Margaret Thatcher
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. -- George Washington
A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. -- Jarvis Cocker
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative. -- Boris Johnson
Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed. -- Chuck Knox
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. -- Milton Friedman
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. -- Winston Churchill
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative. -- Robert Rhodes James
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? -- Ken Kesey
I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party. -- Michael Howard
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. -- Calvin Coolidge
'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'. -- Stephen Colbert
The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing. -- John Redwood
I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know. -- Cilla Black
I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference -- Arthur Balfour
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. -- William Hague
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush. -- Tom Tancredo
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party. -- Vivienne Westwood
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -- George Washington
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges. -- Margaret Thatcher
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Winston Churchill
It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. -- William Hague
Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. -- Stockwell Day
As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down. -- Julian Critchley
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats. -- Allan Gregg
The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us. -- Theresa May
Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success. -- Bobby Jindal
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. -- Ronald Reagan
I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation. -- Hugh Dalton
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments. -- Paul Weyrich
Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment. -- Catherine Austin Fitts
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' -- Benjamin Disraeli
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. -- Henry Ford
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party. -- Enoch Powell
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them. -- David Frost
I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative. -- Josh Bernstein
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard? -- Harriet Harman
Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014. -- Rush Limbaugh
I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. -- John Major
I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify. -- David Cameron
Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country. -- Theresa May
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' -- William Arthur Ward
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. -- David Frost
Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair. -- Jon Stewart
The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one. -- Nick Clegg
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -- Ronald Reagan
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. -- Pope John Paul II
Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years. -- John Darnielle
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative. -- John Bercow
In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it. -- Jarvis Cocker
I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people. -- Boris Johnson
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. -- Milton Friedman
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. -- Margaret Thatcher
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. -- Newt Gingrich
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. -- David Miliband
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government. -- Peter MacKay
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. -- Barry Goldwater
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history -- Gordon Brown
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on. -- George Osborne
The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. -- George Osborne
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society. -- Mark Levin
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. -- Alan Moore
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. -- Alan Green
I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party. -- Michael Heseltine
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue. -- Tim Yeo
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. -- James Madison
People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country. -- David Cameron
If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth. -- Rush Limbaugh
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. -- Jeremy Hardy
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -- Thomas Sowell
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. -- Thomas Sowell
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement. -- Nick Clegg
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. -- Jon Stewart
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. -- Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. -- Frank Dane
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. -- Clint Eastwood
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. -- Bobby Seale
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. -- Ann Coulter
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. -- David Mamet
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. -- Ted Cruz
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. -- Max Lucado
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. -- Kanye West
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. -- Mick Jagger
What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams. -- Marco Rubio
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. -- Jimi Hendrix
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process. -- Sarah Palin
Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue. -- Louis C. K.
So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that? -- Tom Brady
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing. -- Donald Trump
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. -- Camille Paglia
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing. -- Danica Patrick
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. -- Clarence Thomas
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. -- Mark McKinnon
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. -- Jeremy Hunt
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. -- David Cameron

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