Conservatives

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845 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 (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832 A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936 The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975) 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 (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935 When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844 It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson I never dared to be radical when youngFor fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)