Quotes of Conservatives - somelinesforyou

“ A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ”

- Alfred E. Wiggam

“ A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time. ”

- Frank A. Vanderlip

“ A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. ”

- Mark Twain

“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“ I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ”

- Robert Frost

“ A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. ”

- Woodrow Wilson
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