(1237 quotes found)
“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
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill
“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
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life”
Theodore Roosevelt
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested”
Thomas Wolfe
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Elbert Hubbard