Sentence examples for a conservative principle from inspiring English sources

"Self-reliance is a conservative principle," he continued.

The proposed tax was killed, Mr. Abramoff said, "once they discerned a conservative principle".

Morton Blackwell of Virginia said it was a conservative principle that "concentration and control of power in the national party should be avoided wherever possible".

As a conservative evangelical Christian, it is unusual for me to side with the ACLU, but I think objecting to unnecessary law is a conservative principle as well as a libertarian one".

In the resolution, referred to as the "Republican Climate Resolution," the congressmen argued protecting the health of our planet is a "conservative principle" and pledged to "study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates".

For conservatives, in fact, the claim that fair play is "a powerfully conservative principle" is hardly a reason to reject the principle.

While the result disappoints conservatives like Mr. Smith and Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the majority whip, it is a statement of judicial restraint, a staple conservative principle.

The idea that wisdom accrues to institutions is a fundamentally conservative principle: it is puzzling, in a way, that Republicans have forgotten that.

"That is not a good conservative principle".

I think it's a thoroughly conservative principle to believe that industrial societies should develop comprehensive welfare states.

This proposal is based on a fundamentally conservative principle — that those who cause injury should be made to "internalize" the cost of their activity by paying for it.