Conservative Quotes
On political identity described in personal terms.
These quotes offer personal, first-person takes on identifying as conservative, from weighing it against another option to describing oneself as pragmatic rather than rigid. One line stresses concern for country as the underlying motivation. See related views in Conservatism quotes.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.
I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.
What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
My claim has always been that defeatism pervaded the conservative parties in the 1930s and that it was the defining characteristic of Menzies and his first period as prime minister.
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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