“ A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. ”
- Frank Dane- Copy
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“ Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. ”
- Rudy Giuliani- Copy
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“ No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and don't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. ”
- Wendy Kaminer- Copy
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“ Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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“ A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ”
- Alfred E. Wiggam- Copy
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“ It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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“ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time. ”
- Lynwood L. Giacomini- Copy
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“ No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. ”
- Harold Rosenberg- Copy
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“ There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. ”
- Stephen Carter- Copy
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“ When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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