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God helps those who help themselves.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Becoming more conservative as you age isn’t maturity, it’s an admission that your values are based entirely on securing your own net worth.

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

On issue after issue, the polls – and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time – show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

One and God make a majority.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

There is no doubt that Facebook employees try to silence conservative voices and a quick Google News search on most contemporary topics often reveals a similar pattern of selectivity—or to be blunt, censorship.

I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison – father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people’s bills.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who’s hitting you? It’s about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT’S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody’s theories or obsessions.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

In my personal life I’m very conservative. I’ve been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I’m scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I’m very careful. But as an actor I’m pretty reckless. I’ve done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I’ve made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.