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A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.

» Anonymous (-)

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

» Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of the USA

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

» John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economist

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

» Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) British poet [1st Baron Tennyson]

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world, and never will.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency,

» David Cameron (1966-?) British Politician

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

» Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

» Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer. Prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

» Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian Musician

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

» Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) British statewoman

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

» Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) English Leader

What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

» Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American Writerand philanthropist

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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

» Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American black leader[ Nobel Peace Prize in1964],

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

» William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English Romantic poet ['Lyrical Ballads']

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