Anti Conservative Quotes

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.