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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
— John Stott
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
— Al Gore
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
— Jimmy Carter
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
— George H. W. Bush
I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?
— Craig Blomberg
The gait most congenial to agrarian thought and sensibility is walking. It is the gait best suited to paying attention, most conservative of land and equipment, and most permissive of stopping to look or think. Machines, companies, and politicians run. Farmers studying their fields travel at a walk.
— Wendell Berry
I don't mean a 1905 Republican---I don't know what his Tennessee politics were, or if he had any---I mean a 1961 Republican. He was more: he was a Conservative. Like this: a Republican is a mad who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write.
— William Faulkner
The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
— Henry David Thoreau