Famous Conservative Quotes

From the Framers and Right-Thinkers

Ecclesiastes 10:2: "A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left."

George Washington: "It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."

Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

Abraham Lincoln: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

Theodore Roosevelt: "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

" There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

George Orwell: "Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Winston Churchill: "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head."

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid."

John Wayne:"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."

Ronald Reagan: "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

"The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view."

George W. Bush:"I hear you, we all hear you, and the people who knocked down these buildings [WTC] will hear ALL of us soon!"

"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done."

"America will NEVER seek a permission slip to defend itself!"