[转贴]40个保守主义经典警句/40 Classic Conservative Quotes
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[color=Indigo]Note: Not everyone on this list could fairly be called a "conservative," but all of the quotes represent classic examples of conservative thinking.
1) A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. -- Samuel Adams
2) I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley
3) All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
4) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
5) Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong! -- Steven Decatur
6) Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. -- Will And Ariel Durant
7) "The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
8) It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. -- Millard Fillmore
9) I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. -- Ben Franklin
10) I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
11) Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. -- Barry Goldwater
12) The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital... if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today. -- William Henry Harrison
13) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -- Patrick Henry
14) I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
15) That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson
16) I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -- Martin Luther King
17) If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. -- Curtis LeMay
18) Compassion is defined not by how many people are on the government dole but by how many people no longer need government assistance. -- Rush Limbaugh
19) The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages. -- Rush Limbaugh
20) From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
21) I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -- James Madison
22) If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. -- Somerset Maugham
23) War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
24) People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell
25) One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. -- James Otis
26) If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Tom Paine
27) Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. -- Tom Paine
28) History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -- Ronald Reagan
29) Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. -- Ronald Reagan
30) We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. -- Ronald Reagan
31) The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -- Ronald Reagan
32) I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
33) Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far. -- Teddy Roosevelt
34) Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. -- Benjamin Rush
35) War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. -- Gen William T. Sherman
36) There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. -- Thomas Sowell
37) ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest. -- Margaret Thatcher
38) To be free is better than to be unfree - always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect. -- Margaret Thatcher
39) Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not 'be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly' -- Margaret Thatcher
40) Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. -- George Washington [/color] [color=Indigo]40个保守主义经典警句
说明：不是这个单子上的每个人都可以被称作“保守主义者”（conservative），但所有这些引用都代表经典的保守主义理念。
1）抛弃原则更可能导致美国失去自由，超过全部美国的敌人的武力。保持美德的人不会被征服，然而一旦失去美德，他们会向第一个内部或外部的入侵者交出自由。- 塞缪尔-亚当斯（Samuel Adams）
2）我宁可相信由波士顿电话本上列出的头400个人组成的美国政府，也不相信哈佛大学教授组成的美国政府。- 威廉-巴克利（William F. Buckley）
3）让魔鬼胜利的唯一必要条件，就是好人什么都不做。- 柏克（Edmund Burk）
4）资本主义的天生的瑕疵就是得到祝福的不均等；社会主义的天然的美德就是得到不幸的均等。- 丘吉尔（Winston Churchill）
5）我的祖国！当和其他国家冲突的时候，但愿她总是在对的一方；但无论对错，她都是我的祖国。- Steven Decatur
6）100个新主意里，99个很可能比它们宣称要替代的传统办法要差。不过，无论多么伟大多么知识丰富，也没有哪个人可以通过一生的经历就安全的做出判断，废除社会的传统和机制，因为那些是几个世纪的历史试验通过几代人得来的智慧。- 威尔-杜兰特和艾丽尔-杜兰特（Will And Ariel Durant）
7）“当国会发现可以用公共经费贿赂大众的那一天，美利坚共和国也就很难再维持了。”- 托克维尔（Alexis de Tocqueville）
8）这并不新鲜，人们会误把改变当作进步。- 米勒德-菲尔莫尔（Millard Fillmore）
9）我赞成帮助穷人，但我的办法不同。我想帮助穷人的最好的办法，不是让他们的贫穷生活变的容易，而是引导或迫使他们远离贫穷。年轻时候我旅行了很多，我发现在不同的国家，对贫穷提供越多的公共资助，穷人对自己的支持就越少，于是他们变的更穷。与之相反，对他们做的越少，他们为自己做的越多，从而变的富裕。- 本杰明-富兰克林（Benjamin Franklin）
10）我要提醒各位，在保卫自由上走极端不是缺点。我还要提醒各位，在追求正义上搞温和不是美德。- 戈德华特（Barry Goldwater）
11）不要忘记，一个政府大到给你提供一切的时候，这个政府也大到可以夺走你的一切。- 戈德华特（Barry Goldwater）
12）如果存在政府明天可能会推翻今天制定的规则这样的不确定性，老派的资本家永远不会用他们的资本冒险。- 威廉-亨利-哈里森（William Henry Harrison）
13）生命真的那么宝贵，和平真的那么美好，值得用锁链和奴役来换取吗？全能的上帝，请阻止那种情况。我不知道别人怎么想，但对我来说，不自由毋宁死。- 帕特里克-亨利（Patrick Henry）
14）我曾在上帝的祭坛前发誓，对任何形式的对人的意志的专制，我都要保持永恒的敌意。- 托马斯-杰弗逊（Thomas Jefferson）
15）最好的政府是管的最少的政府，因为其中的公民能够自律。- 托马斯-杰弗逊（Thomas Jefferson）
16）我有个梦想，有一天我的四个小孩子可以生活在这样的国家，人们不是用肤色而是品质来判断他们。- 马丁-路德-金（Martin Luther King）
17）如果你杀死足够的敌人，敌人会停止战斗。- 李梅（Curtis LeMay）
18）判断同情心，不是看多少人靠政府福利，而是看多少人不再需要政府福利。- Rush Limbaugh
19）世界最大的问题是资本主义分布的不均等。如果任何地方都是资本主义，就不会发生食物短缺了。- Rush Limbaugh
20）是被别人爱更好还是被别人怕更好？我希望答案是两者都有，但既然很难把这两者放在一起，如果两者只择其一，被别人怕要比被别人爱安全的多。- 马基雅维利（Niccolo Machiavelli）
21）我相信，更经常发生的丧失自由的情况是，掌权的人逐渐的侵蚀，而不是暴力的突然的剥夺。- 詹姆斯-麦迪逊（James Madison）
22）如果一个国家认为有其他东西比自由更有价值，这个国家会失去自由；讽刺的是，如果认为舒适或金钱比自由更有价值，那么舒适和金钱也会失去。- 毛姆（William Somerset Maugham）
23）战争是恶心的，但并不是最恶心的。道德和忠诚感腐朽堕落到认为没有什么值得开战，才是更恶心的。认为没有什么值得他去战斗，没有什么比个人的安全更重要的人，除非有更好的人为他付出，否则就是个没有任何机会得到自由可怜虫。
24）人们之所以可以在夜晚平安的睡觉，是因为有一些粗人随时准备为睡觉人的平安诉诸暴力。-乔治-奥威尔（George Orwell）
25）英国式自由的最本质的部分之一就是居所的自由。一个人的居所就是他的城堡。-詹姆斯-奥蒂斯（James Otis）
26）如果一定会有麻烦，让麻烦发生在我在的日子，这样我的孩子可以有和平。- 托马斯-潘恩（Thomas Paine）
27）在任何地方，社会都是个祝福，但政府，即便是在最好的阶段，也是个必要的魔鬼；在最差的阶段就变成了令人无法容忍的魔鬼。- 托马斯-潘恩（Thomas Paine）
28）历史告诉我们，战争爆发在政府认为侵略的代价比较低的时候。- 罗纳德-里根（Ronald Reagan）
29）数以百万计的个体在市场里做出自己的决定，对资源的配置总是好过集权政府的中央计划。- 罗纳德-里根（Ronald Reagan）
30）有一万亿美元的债务不是因为我们的税不够高，而是因为我们的开支太大。- 罗纳德-里根（Ronald Reagan）
31)英文里最恐怖的句子是：我是政府派来的，我到这里来帮助你。- 罗纳德-里根（Ronald Reagan）
32）我希望我们能再次提醒大家，只有政府受到限制，人才有自由。其中的原因和结果的关系，就像物理法则一样准确并可以预期：政府扩张，自由收缩。- 罗纳德-里根（Ronald Reagan）
33）说话要软，同时手里拿着大棒，这样才能走的远。- 西奥多-罗斯福（Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt）
34）爱国主义（patriotism）是和正义一样的美德，其对社会的重要性如同自然的情感对家庭的重要性一样。- Benjamin Rush
35）战争是残酷的。没必要去改变这一点。战争越残酷，就会越早结束。- 谢尔曼将军（Gen William T. Sherman）
36）不存在完美解决办法；只有利弊取舍。- Thomas Sowell
37）...保守派在推动人权时有很好的声誉。通过我们的努力，和自封的左翼自由派（liberals）的少的可怜的宝贵帮助，我们基本维持了世界相当部分的人口的自由，并对大部分其他人口的自由加以保卫。- 撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）
38）自由比不自由要好，永远是这样。建议是相反情况的政客应该被当作嫌犯来对待。- 撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）
39）基本的事实是：任何一条政府法规都意味着对自由多了一条限制，任何一条政府法规都有一个代价。那也就是为什么，对待政府法规要象对待婚姻（根据传统祈祷书上的意思），“不该冒险，也不该轻率或随意”。- 撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）
40）武器的重要性仅次于宪法。那是美国人自由的牙齿，独立的基石。- 乔治-华盛顿（George Washington）
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