Dana Loesch Quotes

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

The conservative principles are applicable to the to the most diverse situations.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

I have always found that men are happiest where governments interfere least with their actions; effectively, I believe that government should occupy itself only with what the general interest requires and what is necessary for the repression of crime and the safety of morals.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

Conservatism to me is limited government, liberty and sticking to the Constitution and realizing that government is not the solution to almost anything, that your community, your family is the solution to everything.

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well, I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world...

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.