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

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
Zach Wamp

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
Sherwood Boehlert

I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
Karen Duffy

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
Arne Jacobsen

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
Ron Paul

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
Silvia Cartwright

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.
Mark Kennedy

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai

You can't conserve what you haven't got.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas