Conservatism Quotes

The absurd man is one who never changes. (Auguste Barthelemy, 1796-1867)

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-87)

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

The modern conservative is engaged in one man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. (John K. Galbraith, 1908-)

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915)

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. (Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945)

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

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