Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

The record shows that there is very good reason to question the compassionate part of compassionate conservatism. It is simply hooey!

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people's suffering for his principles.

Many Americans don't like the simple things. That's what they have against conservatives.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.