Owen Dudley Edwards Quotes

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

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

The future belongs to Conservatives. They are younger, they are more energetic, they dominate the party caucuses, they dominate the nominating process. They are committed to ideas, not simply personal aggrandizement or title.

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.

Being Conservative is only another way of being British.

This difference between the two parties covers a wide range, and is indicative of the conservative thought of the one and the progressive thought of the other.

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

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

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

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

I'm as conservative as they come.

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.

The role of a conservative is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Conservatives don’t seem to criticize their own as much as liberals do. It’s not that they don’t do it. It’s that they don’t do it with the same zeal and enthusiasm.

I'm for making the Republican Party conservative or making it die.

If the Democratic Party is to win in November, it will have to fly with both its wings—the liberal and the conservative.

I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad.

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

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Contemporary Conservatism ... is like contemporary art, seldom much admired in its time; it only achieves acceptance and admiration in retrospect.

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