John Howard Quotes

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

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I'm as conservative as they come.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

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

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

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

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side—the side of corruption and prerogative.

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

I’m extremely conservative but I’m not mad at anybody about it.

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.