A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William F. Buckley, Jr.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Dane

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Frank Rizzo

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

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

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl

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

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques Barzun

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.
Herman Cain

All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.
Mike Pence