Liberals(Related Subjects: Conservatives)

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. Anonymous 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 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) It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. Robert Anton Wilson A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. Willis Player