Quotes 21 till 40 of 70.
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel 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.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative.
Debat in Parlement (31 May 1866) -
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010 -
In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.
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Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
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Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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