Conservatism Quotes

“The preservation of our ancient and venerable constitution is the first object.”

“The only way to help a man is to help him to help himself.”

“The Church cannot be expected to bless what God has forbidden.”

“We must be ever vigilant in our actions and in our laws to preserve the sanctity of marriage.”

“The conservative movement is an intellectual movement, and it needs to be fed with ideas.”

“The National Endowment for the Arts is a lavish and wasteful welfare program that forces taxpayers to pay for art that is obscene, blasphemous, and offensive.”

“The great lesson of history is, that all successful institutions are the result of growth, and not of manufacture.”

“I am a fiscal conservative, and I believe in a balanced budget.”

“I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”

“We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers in the economy.”

“I've always been a fiscal conservative. I'm a pay-as-you-go kind of guy.”

“The modern liberal state is a machine for the creation and maintenance of dependency.”

“I believe that the federal government is incompetent to do most of the things that it is now trying to do.”

“I have tried to be a commonsense conservative.”

“The right-wing media is a bubble, and it is a dangerous one.”

“I am a conservative, and I know what is and is not a conservative. The religious bigots are not conservatives.”

“The problem is not the availability of guns, it is the availability of criminals.”

“I think what we need to do is we need to first of all not do any more harm to the family.”

“The Conservative party is not a church, it's a coalition.”

“We need to get back to the basics of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.”