Conservative Thinking Quotes

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

The profession of economists seemed permanently conservative in its mode of thinking—always the last to know when old verities were crumbling and new ones emerging. As a group, they defended the status quo, whatever it was, until real events destroyed it.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.

Experience forced on men’s minds the conviction that what had ever been must ever be.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

[Conservatism is:] using solutions that have worked in the past and applying them to solve the problems of the present.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.

There's an appetite for advancing conservative solutions and not just talking about them.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

The public doesn't adopt radical concepts very quickly.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.