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

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

3.4 · 31 votes

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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.

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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.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

3.6 · 52 votes

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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.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

3.8 · 33 votes · 129 reads

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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.

Winston Churchill

PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

4.2 · 21 votes

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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

EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

4.5 · 23 votes · 161 reads

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

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John Maynard Keynes

EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

3.4 · 61 votes · 124 reads

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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,

PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

4.9 · 27 votes

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

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

3.1 · 36 votes · 105 reads

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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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

3.2 · 22 votes

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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
PoetBritish1809 · 19th century
4.1 · 8 votes · 129 reads
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.9 · 37 votes · 189 reads
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century
4.2 · 12 votes · 46 reads
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt
PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century
4.9 · 19 votes · 197 reads
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
4.7 · 9 votes · 190 reads
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We Conservatives hate unemployment.
Margaret Thatcher
PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century
4.2 · 32 votes · 183 reads
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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.0 · 54 votes · 195 reads
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.
LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century
4.1 · 47 votes · 83 reads
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