Popular Quotes and Sayings about Conservatives |
| 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 Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ~Woody Allen A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. ~Sir Winston Churchill A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Sir Francis Bacon For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. ~Eric Ambler Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. ~Denis Diderot Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ~Calvin Coolidge When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~Martin Luther King Jr. I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ~Robert Frost 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 |